Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
Quote by Charles Caleb Colton
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Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
- Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
- Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
- There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
- War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
- Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
- The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
- Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
- Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
- The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
- Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.
- The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
Best Quotes
- I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
- The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
- I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
- When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
- My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
- When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
- When there is nothing to talk about don't force yourself to say anything because it may land you in trouble.
- It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
- Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.