Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.

The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what.

You get older, and people start passing away. And so if you're lucky - my mom died very young, for instance, and I have friends who died very young - but the point being that, I think if you're awake, you know you're going to pass on. And that the real treasure in life is the long term - relationships that you really value.

I don't suppose that I know more about life than anyone of my age, but it seems to me that, in the capacity of an interlocutor, a book is more reliable than a friend or a beloved.

I'm concerned with the future. I'm concerned with my life, my present, my friends, people I love, people who love me. I have no intention of taking on a legacy that wasn't bestowed on me.

People are entitled to their friendships, and we're all entitled to be disappointed by our friends when they disappoint us.

As you get older, sometimes you lose touch with people you were friends with in high school and college. But when you've been part of a legacy together, you should still find a way to see eye to eye.

We are the heirs of the ages; but the estate is entailed, as large estates frequently are, so that while we inherit the earth, the great round world which is God's footstool, we have only the use of it while we live and must pass it on to those come after us. We hold the property in trust and have no right to injure it or to lessen its value. To do so is dishonest, stealing from our heirs their inheritance.

It doesn't hurt to look 75 to 100 years out, That's a gift to future generations.

Success is not success without a successor.

Get ready for the future: it is murder.

I met so many people after I got rich and famous, and I learned that you can't ultimately trust people unless they were your friends when you were broke.

Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.

That's the other thing that you find most often with women. They're not really concerned about what's happened over the last four years. They really want to know what's going to happen in the next four years.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.

We are the heirs of the ages