Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
Quote by Charles Caleb Colton
Topics:
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
Related Quotes
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after...
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put...
Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but...
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Mystery is not profoundness
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the...
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our...
Imitation is the sincerest flattery
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on...
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses...
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses...
In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that...
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had...
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread...
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
