I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Men Quotes, Teenage Quotes

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

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

He who knows himself knows others.

He who knows himself knows others.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be...

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be...

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should...

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should...

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by...

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by...

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return...

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return...

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

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

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Mystery is not profoundness

Mystery is not profoundness

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would...

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would...

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good,...

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good,...

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never...

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never...

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it...

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it...

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The...

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The...

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty...

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty...

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they...

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they...

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a...

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a...

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than...

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than...