Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so
Quote by Charles Caleb Colton
Topics:
Pride Quotes
Related Quotes
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...
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise...
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never...
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and...
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring...
There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and...
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward...
We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should...
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion...
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler...
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable...
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those...
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be...
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate,...
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get...
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more...
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good,...
