Christopher Columbus Men Quotations

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.

These people are very unskilled in arms ... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."

With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.

The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, [and] herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed. The first certain reference in history to smoking tobacco.