The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later

Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Excess Quotes, Youth Quotes

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...

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but...

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but...

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 study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

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...

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to...

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to...

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less...

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less...

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our...

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our...

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no...

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no...

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim...

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim...

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try...

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try...

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it...

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it...

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people...

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people...

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had...

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had...

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest...

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest...

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,...

There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and...

There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and...

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man...

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man...

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and...

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and...