Charles Caleb Colton

La amistad puede convertirse en amor. El amor en amistad. . .nunca. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#love #friendship

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#away #day #done #every #every day

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#hate #know #persons #some #them

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#better #danger #encounters #hurricane #lee

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#eyes #men #much #order #say

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#always #because #cowardice #die #live

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#completely #duplicity #full #integrity #more

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#books #cease #chosen #fail #few

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#feed #happiness #ladies #love #pride

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

#loudest #their #those #threats #weakest