“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”

About Charles Caleb Colton

1780 – 1832

English cleric and writer, author of "Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words".

“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day.”

“That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.”

“Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right, without them.”

“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”

“A man may be a fool and not know it—but not if he is married.”

“It was the triumph of hope over experience.”

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.”

“Of manners gentle, of affections mild; in wit, a man; simplicity, a child.”

“Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.”