More From Charles Caleb Colton
- "There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."
- "Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess."
- "Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
More In Men
- "Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half."― Plato
- "These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished."― Christopher Columbus
- "While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings."― Henry David Thoreau