Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference.

What I say is, 'If you're so rich, how come you're so dumb?'

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

He that is rich is wise.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.