843 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it’s set a rolling it must increase.

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants – both know too much of him.

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.

If a horse has four legs, and I’m riding it, I think I can win.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another’s prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed – to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool’s calendar.

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them.