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	Cabbage-stalks.
1.	He is equal to any task that can subsist on cabbage-stalks.	Chinese.
	Cæsar.
1.	Fear nothing, thou carriest Cæsar and his fortune.	(Cæsar encouraging the pilot in a storm.)
2.	I came, I saw, I conquered.	(Cæsar's announcement of his victory over Pharnaces.)
3.	Imperial Cæsar, dead and turned to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away.	Shaks.
4.	Render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's.	New Testament.
	Cage.
1.	A fine cage won't feed the bird.
	Cain.
1.	The instinct of the first Cain ever lurks somewhere in human hearts.
	Cake.
1.	I had rather my cake burn than you should turn it.
2.	There is no cake but there is like of the same make.
3.	Your cake is dough.
	Calamity.
1.	Calamity is man's true touchstone.	Beaumont and Fletcher.
2.	Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind.
3.	Calamity's virtue's opportunity.	Seneca.
4.	The deliberations of calamity are rarely wise.	Burke.
5.	What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.	Bea.
	Calf.
1.	A change of pasturage makes fat calves.	Sp.
2.	A lean calf forgets to skip.
3.	The greatest calf is not the sweetest veal.
4.	When the calf gets a fortune he expects to be called Mr. Bull.	Ger.
5.	When they give you the calf be ready with the halter.	Sp.
	Calling.
1.	He that is ashamed of his calling ever liveth shamefully in it.
	Calm.
1.	A calm is welcome after a storm.
2.	A calm portends a storm.	Ital.
3.	After a storm comes a calm.
	Calms.
1.	Mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed.
	Calumny.
1.	A probable story is the first weapon of calumny.
2.	Backwounding calumny the whitest virtue strikes.	Shaks.
3.	Be thou as chaste as ice and pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.	Shaks.
4.	Calumniate strongly and some of it will stick.	Latin.
5.	Calumny and conjecture may injure innocence itself.
6.	Calumny will soil virtue itself.	Shaks.
7.	It is better to play the role of an assassin than that of calumniator; the assassin inflicts death but once, the other a thousand times.	Chinese.
8.	Neglected calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt and you give it the appearance of truth.	Tacitus.
9.	Nothing in its progress is so rapid as calumny, nothing more widely spread, nor more readily received.	Cicero.
10.	Taught by calumny I pity the unfortunate.
11.	There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.	Fr.
12.	We cannot control the tongues of others, but a good life enables us to despise calumnies.	Cato.
	Camel.
1.	A camel in Media dances in a little cab.
2.	A mangy camel bears the load of many camels.	M. Greek.
3.	Even a mangy camel will carry more than a herd of asses.	Latin.
4.	Everything with a crooked neck is not a camel.	Ger.
5.	If the camel once get his nose in the tent his body will soon follow.	Arabian.
6.	Mangy old camels carry the skins of the young ones to the market.
7.	The camel carries sugar but eats thorns.	Kurd.
8.	The camel going to seek horns lost his ears.	Turk.
9.	The camel has his own opinion and the camel driver has his.	African.
10.	The camel is dancing. (Said of one out of his element.)	Latin.
11.	The camel that travels often to Mecca will return lame at last.	Arabian.
12.	The kick of a camel is soft but stunning.	Turk.
13.	“Why is your neck crooked?” was asked of the camel. “What have I straight?” was the reply.	Turk.
	Can.
1.	The old find strength in the can.
	Candle.
1.	A candle lights others and consumes itself.
2.	A candle under a bushel: i.e., unrevealed merit.	Latin.
3.	A good candle holder proves a good gamester.
4.	A good candle snuffer may come to a good player.
5.	At the foot of the candle it is dark.	Persian.
6.	He that is worst may still hold the candle.
7.	Never light your candle at both ends.
8.	The candle does not give light to itself.	Turk.
9.	The candle that goes before gives the best light.	Dutch.
10.	Neither women nor linen by candle light.	Ital.
11.	The game is not worth the candle.	Fr.
12.	You may light another candle by your own without loss.	Dan.
	Candor.
1.	Candor breeds hatred.	Latin.
2.	Candor is a great virtue.	Bea.
	Cap.
1.	If the cap fits you, wear it.
	Capital.
1.	Credit is capital.
2.	To get on without capital. Literal: He picks up a grain and opens a mill.	Chinese.
3.	You cannot trade without some capital. Literal: You must have a couple of grains of rice to catch fowls.	Chinese.
	Caprice.
1.	Vain man runs headlong to caprice resigned, Impelled by passion and with folly blind.	Juvenal.
	Carcass.
1.	Where the carcass is, the eagles will be gathered together.
	Care.
1.	Another's care hangs by a hair.	Sp.
2.	Biting cares do not disperse otherwise than by vessels of wine.	Horace.
3.	Care and diligence bring luck.
4.	Care and not fine stables makes a good horse.	Dan.
5.	Care brings on gray hairs and age without years.	Ger.
6.	Care follows the increase of wealth.	Horace.
7.	Care is an enemy to life.	Shaks.
8.	Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye.	Shaks.
9.	Care will kill a cat, yet there's no living without it.
10.	Cast all your care on God, that anchor holds.	Tennyson.
11.	“Don't care” has no house.	American Negro.
12.	He that taketh no care of himself must not expect it from others.
13.	How foolish is the toil of trifling cares.	Martial.
14.	Light cares speak—great ones are dumb.	Seneca.
15.	Little goods—little care.
16.	Little property—little care.
17.	Much coin, much care.
18.	Other folk's cares kill the ass.	Sp.
19.	Take care of your tin (or money).
20.	Too much care does more harm than good.
21.	Too much care is as bad as downright negligence.
22.	Want of care admits despair.
23.	Want of care does us more harm than want of knowledge.	Franklin.
	Cares.
1.	And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.	Longfellow.
2.	Many cares make the head white.	M. Greek.
3.	'Tis the vile daily drop on drop which wears The soul out (like the stone) with petty cares.	Byron.
	Carelessness.
1.	A careless watch invites the vigilant foe.
2.	Careless men let their end steal upon them unawares and unprovided.
3.	Careless shepherds make many a feast for the wolf.
4.	“I thought I had given him rope enough,” said Pedley when he hanged his mare.
5.	One stroke on the nail and a hundred on the horseshoe.	Sp.
6.	Such as are careless of themselves can hardly be mindful of others.	Thales.
7.	Throw not the child out with the bath.	Dan.
	Carrion.
1.	No carrion will kill a crow.
2.	The carrion which the eagle has left feeds the crow.	Latin.
	Cart.
1.	An old cart well used—a new one abused.
2.	An unhappy man's cart is eith to tumble.
3.	Creaking carts last the longest.	Dutch.
4.	The best cart may overthrow.
5.	To make the cart go you must grease the wheels.	Ital.
	Cask.
1.	A cask is easily set rolling.
2.	A poor cask often holds good wine.	Latin.
3.	Every cask smells of the wine it contains.	Sp., Por.
4.	The cask always smells of the herring.	Fr.
5.	The cask can give no other wine than what it contains.	Ital.
6.	The cask full, the mother-in-law drunk.
7.	The full cask makes no noise. Ital.
8.	The fuller the cask, the duller the sound.	Ger.
	Castle-in-the-air.
1.	He means to erect a castle-in-the-air and make his fly an elephant to carry it.	Ben Jonson.
2.	He that buildeth castles-in-the-air will soon have no land.
	Castle.
1.	Easy to keep the castle that was never besieged.	Scotch.
2.	He who has not seen a castle looks at a furnace and admires.	M. Greek.
3.	It is easy to keep a castle that was never assaulted.
	Cat.
1.	A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion.
2.	A bawbee cat may look at a king.
3.	A blate cat makes a proud mouse.
4.	A cat may look at a king.	Ger., Dutch.
5.	A cat pent up becomes a lion.	Ital.
6.	A cat that licks the spit is not to be trusted with roast meat.	Ital.
7.	A cat that meweth much catcheth but few mice.	Dutch.
8.	A mewing cat is never a mouser.	Sp.
9.	A mittened cat was never a good hunter.
10.	All cats are alike gray in the night.
11.	All cats are not to be set down for witches.	Fr.
12.	An old cat laps as much as a young kitten.
13.	An old cat likes young mice.	M. Greek.
14.	Cat after cat kind.
14½.	Cats eat what hussies spare.
15.	Cats hide their claws.
16.	Don't look for five feet on a cat.	Don Quixote.
17.	He is like a cat, he always falls on his feet.
18.	He who puts by for the night puts by for the cat.
19.	He's like a singed cat, better than he's likely.
20.	Honest is the cat when the meat is out of reach.
21.	How can the cat help it if the maid be a fool.	Ital.
22.	I will keep no more cats than will catch mice.
23.	It is the cat and the dog that go where they are not called.	Turk.
24.	It takes a good many mice to kill a cat.	Dan.
25.	Keep no more cats than will catch mice.
26.	Muffled cats are not good mousers.
27.	Neither red-haired cat or dog is good.	Sp.
28.	Never was a mewing cat a good mouser.	Ital.
29.	Never was cat or dog drowned that could but see the shore.
30.	No one gives a cat to a hyena to keep.	Western Africa.
31.	Singed cats live long.	Ger.
32.	The cat always leaves her mark upon her friend.	Sp.
33.	The cat and dog may kiss yet are none the better friends.
34.	The cat broke the china.
35.	The cat hath eaten her count.
36.	The cat in gloves catches no mice.
37.	The cat invites the mouse to a feast.
38.	The cat is a good friend but scratches.	Sp., Por.
39.	The cat is absent, the mice dance.	M. Greek.
40.	The cat is hungry when a crust contents her.
41.	The cat is in the cream pot.
42.	The cat is in the dove house.	Sp.
43.	The cat knows whose lips she licks.
44.	The cat loves fish but is loth to wet her feet.	Ital., Ger.
45.	The cat sees not the mouse ever.
46.	The cat steals the rice and the dog comes and eats it.	Chinese.
47.	The cat well knows whose beard she licks.	Por.
48.	The cat's curse hurts the mice less than her bite.	Livonian.
49.	The cats that drive away mice are as good as those that catch them.	Ger.
50.	The liquorish cat gets many a rap.
51.	The more you stroke the cat's back the more she sets up her tail.	Ital.
52.	The scalded cat (or dog) dreads cold water.	Ital., Sp.
53.	There is a cat in the meal tub.
54.	They that bourd wi' cats, maun count upo' scarts.
55.	They whip the cat if our mistress does not spin.	Sp.
56.	Though the cat wink awhile, yet sure she is not blind.
57.	Thou wilt get nae mair o' the cat but the skin.
58.	To a good cat a good rat.	Fr.
59.	To buy a cat in a poke.	Fr.
60.	Wanton kittens make sober cats.
61.	“We are all well placed” said the cat, when she was seated on the bacon.	Dan.
62.	Well might the cat wink when both her eyes were out.
63.	When cat and mouse agree the farmer has no chance.	Dan.
64.	When cats are mousing they don't mew.	Dutch.
65.	When the cat's away the mice will play.	Fr., Ger., Sp., Dan., Por.
66.	When the cat sleeps the mice play.	Dutch.
67.	When the cat's away it's jubilee to the mice.	Dutch.
68.	When the cat winketh, little wots the mouse what the cat thinketh.
69.	When the weasel and a cat make a marriage it is a very ill presage.
70.	Which is the cat and which the rat? Hassan, Rajah of Borneo asked this question of Mr. Brooke, referring to the relative strength of England and Holland.
71.	Who is born of a cat will run after mice.
72.	Who will not feed the cats, must feed the mice and rats.	Ger.
	Cat's Paw.
1.	He beat the bushes and another caught the birds.	Fr.
2.	He has given him the bag to hold.
3.	It is good to strike the serpent's head with your enemy's hand.
4.	To draw the snake out of the hole with another's hand.	Sp.
5.	To start the hare for another's profit.
6.	To take out a burning coal with another's hand.	Sp.
7.	To do like the monkey, take the chestnuts out of the fire with the cat's paw.
	Catching.
1.	When we think to catch, we are sometimes caught.	Sp.
	Cause.
1.	A good cause makes a stout heart and a strong arm.
2.	A good cause needs help.	Fr.
3.	Everything must have a cause.	Chinese.
4.	For it is a duty, all the learned think, To espouse his cause by whom you eat and drink.
5.	He who hath an ill cause let him sell it cheap.
6.	If you grease a cause well it will stretch.
7.	It is a bad or ill cause that none dare speak in.	Scotch.
8.	Lidford law: first hang and draw, then hear the cause.
9.	The best cause requires a good pleader.	Dutch.
10.	The cause finds arms.
11.	There is a cause for all things.	Ital.
12.	'Tis a sign of an ill cause to rail at your adversary.
13.	Tis the cause makes all: Degrades or hallows courage in its fall.	Byron.
14.	When the cause is lost words are useless.	Ital.
15.	Where the cause is just, the small conquers the great.	Greek.
	Caution.
1.	Abundant caution does no harm.	Coke.
2.	Be cautious what you say, of whom and to whom.	Fielding.
3.	Be first at a feast and last at a fight.	Tamil.
4.	Caution is the mother of tender beer glasses.	Dutch.
5.	Fortunate is he whom the dangers of others have rendered cautious.	Latin.
6.	If thou canst not see the bottom wade not.
7.	It is always well to have hold of your horse's bridle.	Fr.
8.	Lock the stable door before the steed is stolen.
9.	Much caution does no harm.	Por.
10.	We know not which stone the scorpion lurks under.
11.	Who sees not the bottom let him not pass the water.	Ital.
	Celerity.
1.	Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.	Shaks.
	Censure.
1.	Censure and scandal are not the same.
2.	Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
3.	Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves.	Juvenal.
4.	First look at home, then censure me.
5.	Let thy pride pardon what thy nature needs, The salutary censure of a friend.	Young.
	Ceremony.
1.	Ceremonious friends are so, as far as compliment will go.
2.	Ceremony is the smoke of friendship.	Chinese.
3.	Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding.
	Certainty.
1.	Certainty is the father of right and mother of justice.	Pope.
2.	He that leaves certainty and trusts to chance, When fools pipe he may dance.
3.	I will not change a cottage in possession for a kingdom in reversion.
4.	Nothing is certain in this world but death and taxes.
5.	Nothing is certain in this world; the wheel of fortune is forever in motion.	Petrarch.
6.	Quit not certainty for hope.
	Chaff.
1.	There is no wheat without chaff.
	Chains.
1.	Chains of gold are stronger than chains of iron.
	Chair.
1.	A rickety chair will not long serve as a seat.	Dan.
2.	Chair folk are never paid enough.
3.	Chairs sink and stools rise.	Por.
	Change.
1.	Change of pasture makes fat calves.
2.	People often change and seldom do better.
3.	Pressed with their wants, all change was ever welcome.	Ben Jonson.
4.	Too great and sudden changes, though for the better, are not easily borne.
5.	Who often changes, suffers.	Fr.
	Channel.
1.	If the channel's too small the water must break out.
	Characteristic.
1.	Each has his characteristic whether it is honor or courage.	Hans Andersen.
	Character.
1.	A character, like a kettle, once mended always wants mending.
2.	A single sentence sometimes casts an odium on a man's character that years of integrity will not efface.	Rousseau.
3.	That ought to be called a loss that is gained by the sacrifice of character.	Syms.
4.	The labor of a day will not build up a virtuous habit on the ruins of an old and vicious character.	Buckminster.
5.	To a bad character good doctrine avails nothing.	Ital.
6.	Your character cannot be essentially injured but by your own acts.
	Charity.
1.	A charitable man is the true lover of God.
2.	Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days.	Bible.
3.	Catholic charity makes us members of the Catholic church.
4.	Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor.
5.	Charity begins at home yet should not end there. (When your own courtyard thirsts do not pour the water abroad.)	M. Greek.
6.	Charity covereth a multitude of sins.
7.	Charity doth not adopt the vice of its object.	Fielding.
8.	Charity excuseth not cheating.
9.	Charity gives itself rich, covetousness hoards itself poor.	Ger.
10.	Charity is the scope of all God's commands.
11.	Charity seldom goes out of her own house and ill-nature is always rambling abroad.	Fielding.
12.	Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.	New Testament.
13.	Charity should visit Where hopeless anguish pours her moan and lonely want retires to die.
14.	Charity will rather wipe out the score than inflame the reckoning.
15.	First relieve the needy, then if need be question them.	Rule of the Benedictines.
16.	He hangs a lantern on a pole, which is seen from afar but gives no light below. (Applied to those who spend their charity on remote objects and neglect their families.)	Chinese.
17.	He that feeds upon charity, has a cold dinner and no supper.
18.	He that has no charity deserves no mercy.
19.	He who defers his charities till his death is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.
20.	In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.	Pope.
21.	It is better to misplace our charity on nine unworthy persons than to deny alms to one that is really in need.	Turkish Spy.
22.	The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.
23.	Well regulated charity begins at home (or with one's self).	Fr.
	Chastising.
1.	I chastise thee not out of hatred but out of love.
2.	Chasten thy son while there is hope.
3.	Chastise a good child that it may not grow bad, and a bad one that it may not grow worse.	Dan.
4.	Chastise one that is worthless and he will presently hate you.	Sp.
5.	Chastise the good and he will mend, chastise the bad and he will grow worse.	Ital., Por.
6.	He that chastiseth one amendeth many.
7.	He who chastises one threatens a hundred.	Ital.
8.	Who chastises his child will be honored by him; who chastises him not will be ashamed.	Dutch.
	Chastity.
1.	A greater injury cannot be offered to innocent chastity than unjust suspicion.	Massinger.
2.	Chastity once tarnished can be restored by no art.	Ovid.
3.	Dear to heaven is saintly chastity.	Milton.
4.	The most cautious passes for the most chaste.	Sp.
5.	'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel.	Milton.
6.	When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no crime.	Tacitus.
	Chattering.
1.	Chattering will not make the pot boil.	Turk.
2.	Much chatter, little wit.	Por.
	Cheap.
1.	Cheap bargains are dear.	Sp.
2.	Cheap things are not good, good things are not cheap.	Chinese.
3.	Cheaply bought, dear in the end.	Sp.
4.	Dear is cheap—cheap is dear.	Por.
5.	Do you want to buy cheap, buy of a needy fool.	Sp.
6.	He is never likely to have a good thing cheap who is afraid to ask the price.
7.	Sell cheap and you will sell as much as four others.
8.	That which is bought cheap is the dearest.
9.	The cheap buyer takes bad meat.
10.	The dearer is the cheaper to me for I shall buy the less.
	Cheat, Cheating.
1.	A skilful cheat does not fear the open eye.	Ger.
2.	A skilful cheat needs no assistant.	Ger.
3.	Cheating is more honorable than stealing.	Ger.
4.	Cheating is the chapman's cart and plough.	Ger.
5.	Cheating play never thrives.
6.	Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.
7.	Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat. Butler.
8.	He is most cheated who cheats himself.	Dan.
9.	He that cheateth in small things is a fool, but in greater things is a rogue.
10.	He that cheats me anes shame fa' him, if he cheat me twice, shame fa' me.
11.	He that would cheat a Jew must be a Jew.	Ger.
12.	He that is cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.
13.	He who cheats a cheat and robs a thief, earns a dispensation for a hundred years.	Ger.
14.	It is fair and just to cheat the cheater.	Sp.
15.	Ye cannot cheat one in trade.	Chinese.
	Cheerfulness.
1.	Cheerful company shortens the miles.	Ger.
2.	Cheerfulness and good-will make labor light.
3.	Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.
	Cheese.
1.	Cheese and bread make the cheek red.	Ger.
2.	Cheese from the ewe, milk from the goat, butter from the cow.	Sp.
3.	Cheese is gold in the morning, silver at noon and lead at night.	Ger.
4.	Cheese is a peevish elf, it digests all things but itself.
	Cherries.
1.	Those that eat cherries with great persons shall have their eyes squirted out with the stones.
2.	When you hear of many cherries carry but a small basket.	M. Greek.
	Chicken.
1.	A capon eight months old is fit for a king's table.	Sp., Por.
2.	A cock is crouse on his own midden.
3.	A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.	Dutch, Por., Fr., Ger.
4.	A good cock was never fat.	Por.
5.	A large cock does not suffer a small one to crow.	Yoruba.
6.	A laying hen is better than a standing mill.	Scotch.
7.	A setting hen never grows fat.
8.	All cocks must have a comb.	Dutch.
9.	Black hens lay white eggs.	Dutch.
10.	Even clever hens sometimes lay their eggs among nettles.	Dan.
11.	Every cock scratches toward himself.
12.	Every hen knows how to tread on her own chickens.	Negro Africans of the West Indies.
13.	Fat hens lay few eggs.	Ger.
14.	He who feeds the hen ought to have the egg.	Dan.
15.	Hens are free of horse corn.	Dutch.
16.	Hens like to lay where they see an egg.	Dutch.
17.	If the hen had not cackled, we should not know she had laid an egg.	Ital.
18.	In cold weather cocks crow at midnight.	Chinese.
19.	It is a bad hen that eats at your house and lays at another's.	Sp.
20.	It is a sairy hen that cannot scrape for one bird.
21.	It is not easy to guard the hen that lays her eggs abroad.	Dan.
22.	It is not the hen that cackles most that lays the most eggs.
23.	Knowing hens lay even in nettles.	Ger.
24.	Large fowls will not eat small grain.	Chinese.
25.	Let the hen live though it be with the pip.	Don Quixote.
26.	Prepare a nest for the hen and she will lay eggs for you.	Por.
27.	She holds up her head like a hen drinking water.
28.	The chicken gives advice to the hen.
29.	The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.
30.	The cock often crows without a victory.	Dan.
31.	The cock shuts his eyes when he crows because he knows it by heart.	Ger.
32.	The cock that sings untimely must have its head cut off.	Turk.
33.	The hen flies not far unless the cock flies with her.	Dan.
34.	The hen is ill off when the egg teaches her how to cackle.
35.	The hen lays upon an egg.	Sp.
36.	The hen likes to lay in a nest where there are eggs already.	Ger.
37.	The hen lives by pickings as the lion by prey.	Dan.
38.	The hen ought not to cackle in presence of the cock.	Fr.
39.	The hen sits if it be but one egg.	Don Quixote.
40.	The hen that stays at home picks up the crumbs.
41.	The hen's eyes are with her chickens.	Fr.
42.	The hen's eyes follow her eggs.	Galician.
43.	The scraping hen will get something, the crouching hen nothing.
44.	To force a hen to hatch chickens.	Chinese.
45.	To get the chicks, one must coax the hen.	Fr.
46.	Where the cock is the hen does not crow.	Por.
47.	You are as busy as a hen with one chick.
48.	Young cocks love no cooks.
	Child.
1.	A child of a year old sucks milk from the heel. (By running round in the open air.)	Sp.
2.	A child's back must be bent early.	Dan.
3.	A child's sorrow is short lived.	Dan.
4.	A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
5.	A child that can walk is a Jama (god) to the child in the cradle.	Tamil.
6.	A chip of the old block.
7.	A naughty child must be roughly rocked.
8.	A pet child has many names.	Dan.
9.	A Sunday's child never dies of the plague.	Fr.
10.	A suspicious parent makes an artful child.	Haliburton.
11.	As each one wishes his children to be, so they are.	Terence.
12.	Better the child cry than the old man.	Dan.
13.	Children and chicken must ever be picking.
14.	Children and drunken men speak the truth.	Dan.
15.	Children and fools are prophets.	Fr.
16.	Children and fools have merry lives.
17.	Children and fools tell truth.
18.	Children are certain cares but uncertain comforts.
19.	Children are poor men's riches.
20.	Children are to be cheated with cockles and men with oaths.	Lysander.
21.	Children are what the mothers are.	Landor.
22.	Children are what they are made.	Fr.
23.	Children cry for nuts and apples, and old men for silver and gold.
24.	Children, fools, and drunkards tell the truth.	Ger.
25.	Children have wide ears and long tongues.
26.	Children increase the cares of life but mitigate the remembrance of death.
27.	Children like tender osiers take the bow, And as they first are fashioned always grow.	Juvenal.
28.	Children married, cares increase.	Sp.
29.	Children must be circumvented with words, men with oaths.	Lysander.
30.	Children pick up words as pigeons pease, And utter them again as God shall please.
31.	Children should be seen, not heard.
32.	Children suck the mother when they are young, and the father when they grow up.
33.	Children tell in the highway what they hear by the fireside.	Por.
34.	Children when little make parents fools, when great, mad.
35.	Child's pig, father's hog.
36.	Every man is to be envied who is fortunate with his children.	Euripides.
37.	From children expect childish acts.	Dan.
38.	From many children and little bread good Lord deliver us.
39.	Give a child till he craves and a dog while his tail doth wag and you'll have a fair dog but foul knave.
40.	Give a child his will and a whelp his fill and neither will thrive.
41.	Give to a pig when it grunts and to a child when it cries, and you'll have a fine pig and a bad child.	Dan.
42.	Gold must be beaten and a child scourged.
43.	Gude bairns get broken brows.
44.	Happy is the child whose father went to the devil; i.e., died rich.
45.	He knows not what love is that has not children.	Ital.
46.	He remembers his ancestors but forgets to feed his children.
47.	He that does not beat his child will afterwards beat his own breasts.	Turk.
48.	He that loves his child chastises him.	Dutch.
49.	He who hath children hath neither kindred nor friends.
50.	How did you rear so many children? By being fondest of the little ones.	Por.
51.	How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.	Shaks.
52.	I hate all children of precocious talent.	Cicero.
53.	If the child cries let the mother hush it, if it will not be hushed, let it cry.	Sp.
54.	If the child does not cry, the mother does not understand it.	Russian.
55.	If the child does not cry they give him not suck.	M. Greek.
56.	If you have wicked children of what use is money, and if good, again what use is it.	Turk.
57.	Ill bairns are ay best heard at hame.
58.	It is a wise child that knows its own father.	Ger., Sp., Dan.
59.	Let a child have its will and it will not cry.	Dan.
60.	Little children and headaches, great children and heartaches.	Ital.
61.	Little children, little sorrows; big children, great sorrows.	Ital.
62.	Male children are the pillars of a house.	Greek.
63.	Many children and little bread is a painful pleasure.	Sp.
64.	Married life without children is as the earth deprived of the sun's rays.	Latin.
65.	No ape but swears he has the handsomest children.
66.	Of glasses and children one never has too many.
67.	Of listening children have your fears, For little pitchers have great ears.	Dutch.
68.	One is always somebody's child, that is a comfort.
69.	Our neighbor's children are always the worst.	Ger.
70.	Pretty children sing pretty songs.	Dan.
71.	Quickly toothed and quickly go, Quickly will mother have woe.
72.	Spare the rod and spoil the child.
73.	The best horse needs breaking and the aptest child needs teaching.
74.	The burnt child dreads the fire.
75.	The child is father to the man.	Wordsworth.
76.	The child names the father, the mother knows him.	Livonian.
77.	The child saith nothing but what he heard at the fireside.
78.	The child should be instructed in the arts that will be useful to the man.	Spartan King.
79.	The child that trembles at a rod will never dare to look upon a sword.	Theoderic.
80.	The child who gets a step-mother also gets a step-father.	Greek.
81.	The dearer the child, the sharper must be the rod.	Dan.
82.	The eternal child dwells in fine natures.	De Quincey.
83.	The two best books to a child are a good mother's face and life.
84.	There are no children now-a-days.	Fr.
85.	There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
86.	Thy child that is no child leave upon the water and let him swim.
87.	'Tis better to bind your children to you by gentleness than fear.
88.	To save a father is a child's chief honor.	Byron.
89.	Train up a child in the way he should go.
90.	What children hear at home soon flies abroad.
91.	What the parents spin the children must reel.	Ger.
92.	When children stand quiet they have done some harm.
93.	When the child cuts its teeth death is on the watch.	Sp.
94.	When the child is man we burn the rod.
95.	When the child is christened come god-fathers enough.	Fr.
	Chimney.
1.	A smoking chimney in a great house is a good sign.
2.	A smoky chimney and a scolding wife are two bad companions.
3.	A sooty chimney costs many a beefsteak.
4.	There is not always good cheer where the chimney smokes.
5.	Where the chimney smokes the meal is being cooked.	Hans Andersen.
	Chips.
1.	The worse the carpenter, the more the chips.	Dutch.
	Choler.
1.	Choler hates a counsellor.
2.	Choler is the only unruly passion that justifies itself.
3.	Choleric men are blind and mad.
	Choleric.
1.	The choleric drinks, the melancholic eats, the phlegmatic sleeps.
	Choice. Choosing.
1.	Choose rather to be the tail of lions than the head of foxes. Hebrew.
2.	Choose what is most fit, custom will make it the most agreeable.
3.	Choose what you are, no other state prefer.	Elphinston.
4.	Hard is the choice when one is compelled either by silence to die with grief or by speaking to live with shame.	Ben Jonson.
5.	He that chooses takes the worst.
6.	He that has a choice has trouble.	Dutch.
7.	Hobson's choice; i.e., the next or nothing.
8.	No choice among stinking fish.
9.	There is but bad choice where the whole stock is bad.
10.	There is small choice in rotten apples.	Don Quixote.
	Christian.
1.	A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.	I. C. Hare.
2.	A Christian is the highest style of man.	Young.
3.	To be a humble Christian is no disparagement to a prince or nobleman.
	Christianity.
1.	Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.	Bea.
	Christmas.
1.	After Christmas comes Lent.
2.	Another year will bring another Christmas.	Dan.
3.	At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.	Tusser.
4.	Christmas is talked of so long it comes at last.	Fr.
5.	Green Christmas, a white Easter.
	Church.
1.	A church debt is the devil's salary.	Beecher.
2.	A church stone drops gold.	Galician.
3.	A great church and little devotion.	Ital.
4.	A man may be good in the camp, yet bad in the church.
5.	Better come late to church than never.	Dan.
6.	Big churches, little saints.	Ger.
7.	Early to the church—late to the court.
8.	He that goes to church with an ill intention, goes to God's house on the devil's errand.
9.	Let the church stand in the church-yard.
10.	Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
11.	New churches and new taverns are seldom empty.	Ger.
12.	Old churches have dark windows.	Ger.
13.	The church has no fear of just reasoners.	Bea.
14.	The church is not so large but the priest may say service in it.
15.	The church is out of temper when charity waxeth cold and zeal hot.
16.	The Gypsy church was made of bacon, and the dogs ate it.	Gypsy.
17.	The nearer to church, the farther from God.	Fr., Ger.
18.	What the soul is to man, the church is to the world.	Bea.
19.	When there is nothing, the church loses.	Ital.
20.	Who builds a church to God and not to fame Will never mark the marble with his name.	Pope.
	Churl.
1.	Beat the churl and he will be your friend.
2.	The churl knows not the value of spurs.
3.	Grease a churl's boots and he'll say you're burning them.	Fr.
	Circumstances.
1.	Circumstances alter cases. (Lord Brougham once said, “I wish I had the cases to alter circumstances.”)
2.	Circumstances are beyond the control of man, but his conduct is in his own power.	Bea.
3.	'Tis circumstances make conduct: life's a ship, the sport of every wind.	Bea.
4.	To circumstances and custom the law must yield.	Dan.
	City.
1.	A great city—a great solitude.
2.	That city cannot prosper where an ox is sold for less than a fish.
3.	The air of cities to unaccustomed lungs is fatal.	Bea.
4.	The disgrace of the city is the fault of the citizens.	M. Greek.
	Civil Broils, Civil War.
1.	In civil broils the worst of men may rise to honor.	Plutarch.
2.	The worst absolute government is preferable to civil war.	Favonius.
3.	The wounds of civil war are deeply felt.	Lat.
	Civility.
1.	Civil gates stand open to the bad as well as the good.
2.	Civility costs nothing.
3.	He that is more civil than usual either wants to cozen you or has need of you.	Sp.
4.	It is not a chargeable thing to salute civilly.
5.	The usual forms of civility oblige no man.
6.	There is nothing that costs less than civility.	Don Quixote.
	Civilizers (of Man).
1.	Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.	Bea.
	Claimant.
1.	We do hate a claimant worse than a murderer.
	Clay.
1.	Clay and lime conceal much evil.	Sp.
2.	If the clay is not beat, it does not become potter's clay.	M. Greek.
3.	Unless the clay be well pounded, no pitcher can be made.	Lat.
4.	We are clay in the hands of the potter.
5.	You can imitate anything with moist clay.
	Cleanliness.
1.	Cleanliness is next to godliness.	Wesley.
2.	Cleanliness is the key of prayer.	Arabian.
	Clemency.
1.	Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.	Claudianus.
2.	Clemency and virtue assimilate to God.	Petrarch.
3.	'Tis clemency makes the absolute conquest.
	Clerk.
1.	The clerk wishes the priest to have a fat dish.	Gaelic.
2.	The clock goes as it pleases the clerk.
3.	When it pours upon the parson it drops upon the clerk.	Dan.
4.	When the curate licks the knife, it must be bad for the clerk.	Sp.
	Clever.
1.	A clever man turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.	Chinese.
2.	A clever man's inheritance is found in every country.	Dan.
3.	All clever men are birds of prey.	Maga.
4.	He is called clever who cheats and plunders his friend.	Fr.
5.	If you are not very clever be conciliatory.	Bea.
	Climbing.
1.	Fain would I climb but that I fear to fall.	Raleigh.
2.	He that climbs high falls heavily.	Ger.
3.	He who climbs too high is near a fall.	Ital.
4.	He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.	Ger.
5.	He who would drive another over three dikes must climb over two himself.
6.	If thy heart fail thee do not climb at all.
7.	Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence.	Hans Andersen.
8.	The chamois climbs and gets caught.	Ger.
9.	Those who climb high often have a fall.	Dan.
10.	To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.	Shaks.
11.	Where you cannot climb over you must creep under.	Dan.
12.	Who cannot climb the mountain must remain in the valley.	Ger.
13.	Who never climbed never fell.
	Cloak.
1.	A cloak is not made for a single shower of rain.	Ital.
2.	An old cloak makes a new jerkin.	Shaks.
3.	Arrange your cloak as the wind blows.	Fr.
4.	Fie upon a cloak in fair weather. (Ingratitude.)
5.	From a praying young man and a fasting old one God preserve my cloak.	Sp.
6.	Have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain.
7.	There is no making a good cloak of bad cloth.	Sp.
8.	Though the sun shines leave not your cloak at home.
9.	Under a good cloak may be a bad man.	Sp.
10.	Under a shabby cloak may be a smart thinker.	Por., Sp.
11.	Under my cloak I command (or kill) the king.	Sp.
12.	When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks.	Shaks.
13.	Where you lost your cloak, seek it.	Sp.
	Cloud.
1.	All clouds bring not rain.	Dutch.
2.	Every cloud engenders not a storm.	Shaks.
3.	Every cloud has a silver lining.
4.	If there were no clouds we should not enjoy the sun.
5.	One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
6.	When the clouds are on the hills, they'll come down by the mills.
	Clown.
1.	A hint for a gentleman, a club for a clown.	Pashto.
2.	The more you court a clown the statelier he grows.	Sp.
	Coat.
1.	One must cut his coat according to his cloth.	Ger.
2.	When a man's coat is threadbare it is easy to pick a hole in it.
	Cobblers.
1.	Cobblers and tinkers are the best ale-drinkers.
2.	Cobbler's law: He that takes money must pay the shot.
3.	Sherry-cobblers mend no shoes. (Americanism.)	Punch.
	Cockroach.
1.	The cockroach is always wrong when arguing with the chicken.
	Cold.
1.	A man may catch cold while his coat is a making.	Fielding.
2.	An hour's cold will suck out seven years' heat.
3.	As cold as charity.
4.	Every one feels the cold according as he is clad.	Sp.
5.	Let him that is cold blow the coal.
6.	What keeps out the cold keeps out the heat.	Ital.
	Colt.
1.	A colt is good for nothing if it does not break its halter.	Fr.
2.	A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can.
3.	A kindly aver (colt) never makes a good horse.
4.	A ragged colt may make a good horse.
5.	A wild colt may become a sober horse.
6.	He has a colt's tooth yet in his old head.
7.	How can the foal amble when the horse and mare trot.
8.	Ragged colts may make fine horses.
9.	The best colt needs breaking.
10.	The colt's tooth is still in his mouth.	Massinger.
11.	The tricks that a colt gets at his breaking Will, whilst he lives, ne'er be lacking.
12.	The wildest colts make the best horses when they come to be properly broke and handled.	Themistocles.
13.	There is no colt but breaks some halter.	Ital.
14.	You may break a colt but not an old horse.
	Comfort.
1.	It is poor comfort for one who has broken his leg that another has broken his neck.	Dan.
	Comforter.
1.	The comforter's head never aches.	Ital.
	Coming.
1.	He that comes after sees with more eyes than his own.
2.	He that comes last makes all fast.
3.	He that comes unbidden goes unthanked.	Dutch.
4.	He that comes unca'ed sits unserved.
5.	He who comes first grinds first.	Sp.
6.	The late comer is ill lodged.	Ital.
7.	What comes seldom, comes sharp.
	Commanding.
1.	He that commandeth well shall be obeyed well.
2.	He who cannot command himself, it is folly to think to command others.	Laberius.
3.	He who demands does not command.	Ital.
4.	It is a fine thing to command though it be but a herd of cattle.	Don Quixote.
5.	Little is done where many command.	Dutch.
6.	No affections and a great brain: these are the men to command the world.	Bea.
7.	There is great force hidden in a sweet command.
8.	They that command the most enjoy themselves the least.
9.	To command many will cost much.
	Commencing.
1.	He who commences many things finishes but few.	Ital.
	Commending.
1.	It is safer to commend the dead than the living.
2.	To be commended by those who might blame without fear gives great pleasure.	Agesilaus.
	Commerce.
1.	Commerce loves freedom.	Richardson.
	Common.
1.	Whatever is common is despised.	Dr. Johnson.
	Common-sense.
1.	A handful of common-sense is worth a bushel of learning.
2.	Common-sense is the growth of all countries.
3.	It takes ten pounds of common-sense to carry one pound of learning.	Persian.
4.	There is seldom common-sense in high fortune.	Spectator.
	Company.
1.	A boon companion halves the longest way.	Bulwer.
2.	A man knows his companion in a long journey or a little inn.
3.	A man would not be alone even in paradise.
4.	A good companion makes a heaven out of hell.	Ger.
5.	A good companion makes good company.	Sp.
6.	An agreeable companion on the road is as good as a coach.
7.	Bad companions quickly corrupt the good.	Ger.
8.	“Bad company,” said the thief as he went to the gallows between the hangman and a monk.
9.	Better alone than in bad company.
10.	Better to be beaten than to be in bad company.
11.	Birds of a feather flock together.
12.	Company in distress makes trouble less.	Fr.
13.	Company in misery makes it light.
14.	For a good companion good company.	Sp.
15.	For want of company welcome trumpery.
16.	Go not to hell for company.
17.	Good company makes short miles.	Dutch.
18.	He keeps his road well enough who gets rid of bad company.
19.	He that lies down with dogs will get up with fleas.	Fr., Ital., Sp., Dan.
20.	He that walketh with the virtuous is one of them.
21.	He who goes with wolves learns to howl.	Sp.
22.	If you sit down with a lame man you will learn to halt.	M. Greek.
23.	If you sit with one who squints, before evening you will become cat-eyed.	M. Greek.
24.	Ill company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best.	Swift.
25.	Keep good company and you shall be of the number.	Por.
26.	Keep company with good men and good men you'll imitate.	Chinese.
27.	Keep company with good men and good men you'll learn to be.	Chinese.
28.	Kend fowks nae company.
29.	Let men take heed of their company.	Shaks.
30.	Never be with a bad man.	Chinese.
31.	No road is long with good company.	Turk.
32.	One takes the color of one's company. Literal: Near vermillion one gets stained pink, near ink one gets stained black.	Chinese.
33.	One takes the odor of one's company. Literal: Near putrid fish you'll stink, near the epidendrum you'll be fragrant.	Chinese.
34.	One rotten apple in the basket infects the rest.	Dutch.
35.	Pleasant company alone makes this life tolerable.	Sp.
36.	Present company is always excepted.
37.	Show me your company and I'll tell thee what thou art.	Don Quixote.
38.	Tell me the company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.	Fr., Ital., Sp., Dutch.
39.	Tell me with whom you go and I'll tell you your value.	M. Greek.
40.	Tell me with whom thou goest, and I'll tell thee what thou doest.
41.	The best company must part as King Dagobert said to his hounds.	Fr.
42.	The company keeper has almost as many snares as companions.
43.	The later the evening the fairer the company.
44.	The rotten apple spoils its companions.	Sp.
45.	The third person makes good company.	Dutch.
46.	We should only associate with our equals.	La Fontaine.
47.	When you are in vicious company you are among your enemies.
48.	Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
49.	Wicked companions invite us to hell.	Fielding.
50.	With the good we become good.	Dutch.
51.	You may know him by the company he keeps.
	Comparison.
1.	Comparison is not proof.	Fr.
2.	Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wicked.
3.	Comparisons are odious.	Fr., Ital.
4.	If you would compare two men you must know them both.
5.	Nothing is good or bad but by comparison.
6.	'Tis comparison that makes men happy or miserable.
	Compensation.
1.	I broke my leg perhaps for my good.	Sp.
2.	If I have lost the ring I still have the fingers.	Ital., Sp.
3.	There is no evil without its compensation.
	Complaining.
1.	Make it a point never to complain.	Bea.
2.	Constant complaints never get pity.
	Compliance.
1.	Much compliance, much craft.
	Compliments.
1.	Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.	Ger.
2.	In society compliments are loans which the lenders expect to be repaid with heavy interest.	Punch.
	Condemning.
1.	Men condemn because they do not understand.	Cicero.
	Conduct (Rules of).
1.	Be with a man deaf and hearing, silent and speaking.	Hebrew.
2.	Bind so as you may unbind.
3.	Boldly nominate a spade a spade.	Ben Jonson.
4.	Cast not away what you have for what you are not sure of.
5.	Cast not the helve after the hatchet. (Don't despair.)
6.	Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance.
7.	Clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature.
8.	Commend not your wife, wine, nor house.
9.	Conceal thy domestic ills.	Thales.
10.	Conquer thyself.	Chinese.
11.	Cry no herring till you have it in the net.	Dutch.
12.	Cultivate a chaste imagination.
13.	Deride not the unfortunate.
14.	Do all you can to be good and you'll be so.
15.	Do evil and look for the like.
16.	Do good and care not to whom.	Ital., Por.
17.	Do good and then do it again.
18.	Do good if you expect to receive it.
19.	Do good to a knave and pray God he may not do the same to thee.	Dan.
20.	Do not abandon the substance for the shadow.
21.	Do not all you can, spend not all you have, believe not all you hear, tell not all you know.
22.	Do not carry too much sail.
23.	Do not change what you have said.	Hindoo.
24.	Do not look upon the vessel but upon that which it contains.
25.	Do not make fish of one and flesh of another.
26.	Do not meddle with clandestine affairs.	Hindoo.
27.	Do not neglect your own field and plough your neighbor's.	Hindoo.
28.	Do not publish people's defects.	Hindoo.
29.	Do not put in more warp than you can weave.	Dan.
30.	Do not rake up old grievances.
31.	Do not rip up old sores.
32.	Do not sail too near the wind.
33.	Do not say go, but go thyself.
34.	Do not take hold of a nettle, but if you do, grasp it tight.	Afghan.
35.	Don't fall into the fire to be saved from the smoke.	Turk.
36.	Don't get so anxious that you kill yourself.	North American Indian.
37.	Don't have too many irons in the fire or some will be sure to burn.
38.	Don't make yourself poor to one who won't make you rich.	Dan.
39.	Don't pull hard enough to break the rope.	Por.
40.	Don't put your finger in too tight a ring.	Fr., Ital.
41.	Don't rely on the label of the bag.	Fr.
42.	Don't scald your tongue in other people's broth.
43.	Don't scuffle with the potter for he makes money by the damage.	Sp.
44.	Don't send away your cat for being a thief.	Sp.
45.	Don't shiver for last year's snow.
46.	Don't show your teeth if you can't bite.	Fr.
47.	Don't speak to the man at the wheel.
48.	Don't take too big a chip on a saplin'.	American Negro.
49.	Don't throw the handle after the bill. (Despair.)	Dutch.
50.	Don't wake a sleeping dog.
51.	Don't wake the drunken man.	Ger.
52.	Don't yoke the plough before the horses.	Dutch.
53.	Drive not away what never came near you.	Dan.
54.	Drown not thyself to save a drowning man.
55.	Either a man or a mouse.
56.	Either Cæsar or nobody.
57.	Either make a spoon or spoil a horn.
58.	Employ thy time well, and since thou art not sure of a minute throw not away an hour.	Franklin.
59.	Hide not your light under a bushel.
60.	However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.	Phædrus.
61.	If you cannot say it point to it with your finger.	Fr.
62.	If you cannot take it by the head take it by the tail.	Arabian.
63.	If you can't get it in bushels take it by spoonfuls.	Ger.
64.	If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
65.	If you do wrang mak amends.
66.	If you intend to do a mean thing, wait until to-morrow; if a noble one, do it now.
67.	If you pursue two hares both will escape from you.	M. Greek.
68.	If you stir up the mire you must bear the smell.
69.	If you wish a thing done, go; if not, send.
70.	In a matter of life and death trust not even your mother, she might mistake a black bean for a white one.	Alcibiades.
71.	In a wood don't walk behind another.
72.	It is absurd for a man either to commend or depreciate himself.	Plutarch.
73.	Ne'er scad your lips in other fowk's kale.
74.	Ne'er tell your fae when your feet sleeps.
75.	Never apologize for showing feeling.
76.	Never be ashamed to eat your meat.
77.	Never be too much elated.	Lat.
78.	Never be weary of well doing.
79.	Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime to drink.
80.	Never count four unless you have three in your bag.
81.	Never cross a bridge until you come to it.
82.	Never cry hallo till you are out of the woods.
83.	Never deny your assistance, nor ever do anybody any hurt.	French peasant.
84.	Never descend to vulgarity even in joking.	Latin.
85.	Never do anything of which you are ashamed.
86.	Never do by proxy what you can do yourself.	Ital.
87.	Never give the skin when you can pay with the wool.	Ger.
88.	Never grieve over spilt milk.
89.	Never insult people in distress.	Fable of the wanton calf.
90.	Never lose a tub for a ha'p-worth of tar.
91.	Never make a mountain of a mole-hill.
92.	Never mourn over the past nor mope over the future.	Rev. Dr. Crowley.
93.	Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.	Sir Wm. Jones.
94.	Never neglect small matters or expenses.	Ital.
95.	Never order a man to do what you are afraid to do yourself.	Chinese Gordon.
96.	Never praise a ford till you are over.
97.	Never put your arm out further than you can draw it back again.	Baillie Jarvis.
98.	Never put your thumb between your grinders.
99.	Never quit certainty for hope.
100.	Never refuse a good offer.	Latin, Ital.
101.	Never repent a good action.	Dan.
102.	Never revenge a private injury and hazard your life for the public.	Henry, Prince of Condé, to his son.
103.	Never rub against the grain.
104.	Never say, Fountain, I will not drink of thy water.
105.	Never sigh but send.
106.	Never spread your corn to dry before the door of a saintly man.	Sp.
107.	Never take anything for granted.	Bea.
108.	Never tread on a sore toe.
109.	Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
110.	Never venture out of your depth till you can swim.
111.	Never howl till you're hit.	Ulster.
112.	Not many things imperfectly but a few well.
113.	Of what does not concern you, nothing good or bad.	Ital.
114.	One should always conciliate.	Ger.
115.	One should break his arm to save his neighbor's neck.	Ger.
116.	Order and do it and you'll be rid of anxiety.
117.	Produce much, consume little, labor diligently, speak cautiously.	Chinese.
118.	Rather contend for valor with the brave, than for wealth with the rich, or in rapaciousness with the covetous.	Cato.
119.	Rule lust, temper the tongue, and bridle the belly.
120.	Rule youth an' eild will rule itself.
121.	See that in avoiding cinders you step not on burning coals.	Latin.
122.	Tell no one what you would have known only to yourself.	Dutch.
123.	Tell not all you know, believe not all you hear, do not all you are able.	Ital.
124.	Tell not all you know nor judge of all you see if you would live in peace.	Sp.
125.	With your superiors, eat, drink, and rise fasting.	M. Greek.
	Confidence.
1.	Confidence begets confidence.	Ger.
2.	Confidence cannot be won in a day.
3.	Confidence goes farther in company than good sense.
4.	Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.	Chatham.
5.	Confidence is the companion of success.
	Connoisseur.
1.	The connoisseur is one who knows, as opposed to the dilettante who thinks he knows.	Fairholt.
	Conquer.
1.	They conquer who believe they can.	Virgil.
2.	Would you be strong, conquer yourself.
3.	You will conquer more surely by prudence than by passion.	Syrus.
	Conquerors, Conquered.
1.	Conquerors are like fires, the greater their brilliancy, the larger the ruin they leave behind them.	Punch.
2.	Earth's law: The conquered are the wrong. Bulwer.
3.	He conquers who sticks in his saddle.	Ital.
4.	He hath conquered that hath made his enemies fly.
5.	He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of victory.	Syrus.
6.	He that will conquer must fight.
7.	Let him live who conquers.	Don Quixote.
8.	Long life to the conqueror.	Sp.
9.	Most men cry, Long live the conqueror.
10.	The conquered is never called wise nor the conqueror rash.
	Conquest.
1.	The honors of conquest are never wholly our own: fortune will claim her share in the success.
2.	It is no small conquest to overcome yourself.
	Confession.
1.	A fault confessed is half redressed.
2.	A fault once denied is twice committed.
3.	A generous confession disarms slander.
4.	A knavish confession should have a cane for absolution.
5.	Confess and be hanged.
6.	Confess and beg days.
7.	Confession of a fault makes half amends.
8.	Confession without repentance, friends without faith, prayer without sincerity, are mere loss.	Ital.
9.	He that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but who confesseth and forsakes them shall have mercy.	Bible.
10.	Open confession is good for the soul.
	Conscience.
1.	A bad conscience flies from the light as the devil from the cross.	Ger.
2.	A clear conscience can bear any trouble.
3.	A clear conscience is a good pillow.	Fr.
4.	A clear conscience is a sure card.
5.	A clear conscience is a wall of brass.	Latin.
6.	A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
7.	A good conscience is a soft pillow.	Ger.
8.	A good conscience is God's eye.	Russian.
9.	A good conscience is heaven, a bad one hell.	Ger.
10.	A good conscience is the best divinity.
11.	A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.	Cudworth.
12.	A good conscience is the best law.
13.	A good conscience is wont to speak out.	Pausanias.
14.	A good conscience knows no fear.	Ger.
15.	A good conscience makes a joyful countenance.	Ger.
16.	A grand eloquence, little conscience.
17.	A guilty conscience is an enemy that lives with its possessor.	Tamil.
18.	A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
19.	A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.	Shaks.
20.	A pure conscience may defy city gossips.	Bea.
21.	A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
22.	An approving conscience is a perpetual feast; a guilty conscience a ceaseless torment.	C. C. Baldwin's Moral Maxims.
23.	Although invisible, there are always two witnesses present at our every action: God and our conscience.
24.	An evil conscience breaks many a man's neck.
25.	An evil deed has a witness in the bosom.	Dan.
26.	Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.	Massinger.
27.	Conscience cannot be compelled.
28.	Conscience does make cowards of us all.	Shaks.
29.	Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses.	Ital.
30.	Conscience is the chamber of justice.
31.	Conscience is the champion of justice.
32.	Conscience may grant a truce to the guilty, but never makes a lasting truce.	Tacitus.
33.	Conscience often stops at a mole-hill and leaps over a mountain.	Fielding.
34.	You cannot purchase a good conscience.
35.	He hath a conscience like a cheveril's skin, that will stretch.
36.	It is always term-time in a court of conscience.
37.	Little conscience and great diligence make a great man.
38.	Man's conscience is the oracle of God.	Byron.
39.	Nothing is more wretched than a guilty conscience.	Ben Jonson.
40.	Put your hand in your conscience and see if it don't come out as black as pitch.	Dutch.
41.	Sell not thy conscience with thy goods.
42.	The great theater of conscience is virtue.	Cicero.
43.	The indispensable requisite to happiness is a clear conscience.	Gibbon.
44.	The most sensual man that ever was in the world never felt so delicious a pleasure as a clear conscience.	Tillotson.
45.	The motions of passion and conscience are two things.
46.	There is a policeman in every man's conscience; you may not always find him on the beat.	Punch.
47.	We do nothing but in the presence of two great witnesses, God and our conscience.
48.	You may often feel that heavily on your back which you took lightly on your conscience.	Dan.
	Consideration.
1.	Consideration gets as many victories as rashness loses.
2.	Consideration is half conversion.
3.	Consideration is the parent of wisdom.
	Consistency.
1.	Consistency, thou art a jewel.
	Conspiracies.
1.	Conspiracies no sooner should be formed than executed.	Addison.
2.	When the scabbards are broken we can no longer hide our sabres.	Russian Conspirators.
	Constancy.
1.	Constancy is the foundation of the virtues.	Latin.
	Constitution.
1.	He keeps watch over a good castle who has guarded his own constitution.
	Contemn.
1.	To contemn a just condemnation is to kick at a kindness.
	Contemplation.
1.	He that contemplates on his bed has a day without a night.
	Contempt.
1.	Contempt is the sharpest reproof.
2.	Contempt is usually worse borne than real injuries.
3.	Contempt of a man is the sharpest reproof.
4.	Contempt will cause spite to drink of her own poison.
5.	Contempt will sooner kill an injury than revenge.
	Content.
1.	A competence is vital to content.	Young.
2.	A contented man is always rich.	Latin.
3.	A contented ass enjoys a long life.	Por.
4.	A contented mind is a continual feast.
5.	A contented mind is a specific for making gold.	Tamil.
6.	Be content, the sea hath fish enough.
7.	Content can soothe where'er by fortune placed, Can rear a garden in the desert waste.	H. K. White.
8.	Content is happiness.
9.	Content is an inexhaustible treasure.	Turk.
10.	Content is more than a kingdom.
11.	Content is the philosopher's stone that turns all it touches into gold.
12.	Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces.
13.	Content yourself with your own skin. (Fable of the ass dressed in the lion's skin.)
14.	Contentment gives a crown where fortune has denied it.	Ford.
15.	Contentment is to the mind what a frame is to a cucumber, sunning it and lifting it even from a dunghill.
16.	Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot.
17.	He has enough who is content.	Ital.
18.	He may well be contented that need not lie nor flatter.
19.	He that is content with his poverty is wonderfully rich.
20.	He that can sit upon a stone and feed himself should not move.	Dan.
21.	He that cannot get bacon must be content with cabbage.	Dan.
22.	He who wants content can't find an easy chair.
23.	Let every one be content with what God has given him.	Por.
24.	Let us thank God and be content with what we have.
25.	No one is content with his own lot.	Por.
26.	Nothing will content him who is not content with a little.	Greek.
27.	Our content is our best having.	Shaks.
28.	Since we have loaves let us not look for cakes.	Sp.
29.	The noblest mind the best contentment has.	Spenser.
30.	They need much whom nothing will content.
31.	To be content with little is true happiness.	Tacitus.
32.	To be content to let twelve pennies pass for a shilling.	Ital.
33.	What's an estate good for if it cannot buy content?
34.	Who is content is rich enough.	Ger.
35.	Who is not satisfied with his condition is a great fool.	Ger.
36.	Who is well seated should not budge.	Ger.
37.	You must be content sometimes with rough roads.
38.	You must contrive to bake with the flour you have.	Dan.
39.	You must plough with such oxen as you have.
	Continuance.
1.	Continuance becomes usage.	Ital.
	Contradiction.
1.	Contradiction should awaken attention not passion.
	Contrivance.
1.	Contrivance is better than force.	Fr.
	Conversation.
1.	A man's conversation is the mirror of his thoughts.	Chinese.
2.	Be not too brief in conversation lest you be not understood, nor too diffuse lest you be troublesome.	Protagoras.
3.	Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.	Gibbon.
4.	Conversation teaches more than meditation.
5.	He who converses with nobody is either a brute or an angel.
6.	He who converses with nobody knows nothing.
7.	In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.	Cato.
8.	In conversation dwell not too long on a weak side.
	Convincing.
1.	One may be confuted and yet not convinced.
	Conviviality.
1.	Conviviality reveals secrets.
	Cook.
1.	A good fire makes a good cook.	Dutch.
2.	A hungry man has aye a lazy cook.	Scotch.
3.	A lovelorn cook oversalts the porridge.	Ger.
4.	All are not cooks who carry long knives.	Ger., Dutch, Dan.
5.	A march before day to dress one's dinner, and a light dinner to prepare one's supper, are the best cooks.	Alexander.
6.	An ill cook should have a good cleaver.
7.	Better bid the cooks than the mediciners.
8.	But civilized man cannot live without cooks.	Owen Meredith.
9.	Cooks are not to be taught in their own kitchens.
10.	Every cook praises his own broth.
11.	Many cooks spoil the broth.
12.	Salt cooks bear blame, but fresh bear shame.
13.	She will as soon part with the cook as the porridge.
14.	There is never enmity between the cook and the butler.	Ital.
15.	'Tis an ill cook cannot lick his own fingers.	Shaks.
16.	When the cook and steward fall out, we hear who stole the butter.	Dutch.
17.	When the cook is roasting for the butler, woe unto the master's wine cask.	Dan.
18.	Where there are too many cooks the soup will be salt.	Ital.
	Cooking.
1.	First catch your hare then cook it.
2.	With such cooking a monkey might eat his own father.
	Coquette.
1.	A coquette often loses her reputation while she possesses her virtue.	Spectator.
2.	If the men did not encourage coquettes so much there would not be so many of them.	Punch.
3.	The greatest miracle of love is the reformation of a coquette.	Rochefoucauld.
4.	Ye're o' sae mony minds, ye'll ne'er be married.
	Coral.
1.	Good coral needs no coloring.
	Cork.
1.	If you squeeze a cork you will get but little juice.
	Corn.
1.	Corn him well, he'll work the better.
2.	Corn in good years is hay, in ill years straw is corn.
3.	Corn is not good to be gathered in the blade but in the ear.
4.	He has eaten his corn in the blade.	Fr.
5.	Much corn lies under the straw that is not seen.
6.	No corn without chaff.	Dutch.
7.	The corn falls out of a shaken sheaf.	Fr.
8.	There is plenty of corn in Castile but he who has none starves.	Por.
9.	Very good corn grows in little fields.	Fr.
	Corporation.
1.	A corporation has no soul to be damned nor body to be kicked.	Thurlow.
2.	Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicated for they have no souls.	Coke.
	Correction.
1.	Correction bringeth fruit.	Dutch.
2.	Correction is good when administered in time.	Dan.
3.	Correction should not respect what is past so much as what is to come.
	Corruption.
1.	Corruption of the best becomes the worst.
2.	Corruption will never want a pretence.	Cato the younger.
3.	Corruption wins not more than honesty.	Shaks.
	Corsair.
1.	Corsair against corsair, nothing to win but empty casks.	Ital., Sp.
2.	The galley is in a bad way when the corsair promises masses and candles.	Sp.
	Cost.
1.	More cost, more worship.
2.	That which costs us little is lightly esteemed.	Don Quixote.
3.	The cost ofttimes takes away the relish.
4.	The cost takes away the taste.	Fr.
5.	The more cost the more honor.
6.	The more worship the more cost.
7.	There's a daily cost and all of it lost.
8.	Three things cost dear: the caresses of a dog, the love of a mistress and the invasion of a host.
9.	What costs little is little esteemed.
10.	What costs nothing is worth nothing.	Dutch.
11.	With cost one may make good pottage of a stool.
	Cottage.
1.	The cottage is a palace to the poor.	Fr.
	Counsel.
1.	A resolute heart endures no counsel.	Por.
2.	After counsel is fool's counsel.	Ger.
3.	Counsel after action is like rain after harvest.	Dan.
4.	Counsel before action.	Dutch.
5.	Counsel in wine seldom prospers.
6.	Counsel is irksome when the matter is past remedy.
7.	Counsel is no command.
8.	Counsel is nothing against love.	Ital.
9.	Counsel is to be given by the wise, the remedy by the rich.
10.	Counsel must be followed, not praised.
11.	Counsel never out of date.
12.	Counsel over cups is crazy.
13.	Everybody knows good counsel except him that has need of it.	Ger.
14.	Give neither counsel or salt until you are asked for it.
15.	Good counsel brings good fruit.	Ger.
16.	Good counsel comes over-night.	Ger.
17.	Good counsel has no price.	Ital.
18.	Good counsel is better than a great army.	Ger.
19.	Good counsel is better than a thousand hands.	Ger.
20.	Good counsel is no better than bad counsel, if it be not taken in time.	Dan.
21.	Good counsel is not to be paid with gold.	Ger.
22.	Good counsel never comes too late.	Ger.
23.	Good counsel will not rot if it be got in dry.	Dan.
24.	Good counsel without good fortune is a wind-mill without wind.	Ger.
25.	Happy counsels flow from sober feasts.	Homer.
26.	He takes in good counsel like cold porridge.
27.	He that cannot be counselled cannot be helped.
28.	He that gives bad counsel suffers most by it.	Latin.
29.	He that will not be counselled cannot be helped.
30.	If the counsel be good no matter who gave it.
31.	It is easier to give good counsel than to follow it.	Ger.
32.	It is safer to hear and take counsel than to give it.
33.	It is well to take counsel of one's pillow.
34.	Keep your own counsel.
35.	No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes.	Ben Jonson.
36.	No price is good enough for good counsel.
37.	None goes to the gallows for giving good counsel.
38.	Swift in its march is evil counsel.	Sophocles.
39.	Take counsel before it goes ill, lest it go worse.	Dutch.
40.	There is none so simple but can give counsel.
41.	Though thou hast never so many counsellors, yet do not forsake the counsel of thy own soul.
42.	Though you are a prudent old man do not despise counsel.	Sp.
43.	Three may keep counsel if two be away.
44.	To give counsel to a fool is like throwing water on a goose.	Dan.
45.	Two may keep counsel putting one away.
46.	You give notable counsel but he's a fool that takes it.
	Counsellor.
1.	Neither a blind guide nor a stupid counsellor.	Don Quixote.
2.	There may be such things as old fools and young counsellors.
	Count.
1.	Count cash as if it were gold and so avoid the least mistake.	Chinese.
2.	Count like Jews and agree like brethren.
3.	Count not your chickens before they're hatched, Eat not your gudgeons before they're catched.	Butler.
4.	Count siller after a' your kin.
5.	He that counts a' costs will ne'er put plough i' the ground.
6.	Wrong count is no payment.
	Countenance.
1.	A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.	Fielding.
2.	A good presence is a letter of recommendation.
3.	An open countenance often conceals close thoughts.	Ital.
4.	The countenance is the index of the mind.	Latin.
	Counterfeit.
1.	Counterfeit coin passes current at night.	Por.
	Country.
1.	Wheresoever we live, that is our country.
	Courage.
1.	A brave man will yield to a brave man.	Motto of the Irish Earl of Upper Ossory.
2.	A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.	Quintus Curtius Rufus.
3.	A decent boldness ever meets with friends.	Homer.
4.	A gallant man needs no drums to rouse him.
5.	A gallant man rather despises death than hates life.
6.	A man of courage never wants weapons.
7.	A short sword for a brave man.	Fr.
8.	Add a step to it. (The Spartan mother's advice to her son who complained that his sword was too short.)
9.	All are brave when the enemy flies.	Ital.
10.	Beasts and birds of prey To the last gasp defend their brood.	Massinger.
11.	Before the time great courage, when at the point great fear.	Sp.
12.	Bold in close ambush, base in open field.	Dryden.
13.	Courage is the armed sentinel that guards liberty, innocence and right.	C. C. Baldwin's Moral Maxims.
14.	Courage, conduct and perseverance conquer all before them.
15.	Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but in being resolute minded in a just cause.
16.	Courage in danger is half the battle.	Plautus.
17.	Courage in war is safer than cowardice.	Hindoo.
18.	Courage is fire, bullying is smoke.	Bea.
19.	Courage leads to heaven, fear to death.	Seneca.
20.	Courage mounteth with occasion.	Shaks.
21.	Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
22.	Courage without fortune destroys a man.
23.	Every man will shoot at the enemy but few will fetch the shafts.
24.	Good courage breaks ill luck.
25.	He is master of another man's life, who is indifferent to his own.	Ital.
26.	He makes me less bold who delivers me from the misery that made life a burthen to me. (The soldier speaking to Antigonous.)
27.	Human courage should rise to the height of human calamity.	Genl. R. E. Lee.
28.	If you do not enter a tiger's den you can't get his cubs.	Chinese.
29.	In a slothful peace courage will effeminate.	Pope.
30.	In doubtful matters courage may do much, in desperate, patience.
31.	Intrepid courage is the foundation of victory.	Plutarch.
32.	It is courage that vanquishes in war and not good weapons.	Sp.
33.	Man has the addition of courage and virtue to defend his rights.	Civilis the Batavian.
34.	No man can answer for his courage who has never been in danger.	Rochefoucauld.
35.	No exile or danger can fright a brave spirit.	Dryden.
36.	Nothing recommends a man more to the female mind than courage.	Spectator.
37.	Put off your armor and then show your courage.
38.	Rage avails less than courage.	Fr.
39.	The courage of the soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.	Gibbon.
40.	The great point of honor in men is courage, in women chastity.	Spectator.
41.	The more wit the less courage.
42.	There is a courage which grows out of fear.
43.	True courage grapples with misfortune.	Tacitus.
44.	Who hath no courage must have legs.	Ital.
	Court.
1.	A court is an assemblage of noble and distinguished beggars.	Talleyrand.
2.	A petitioner at court that spares his purse angles without bait.
3.	A place at court is a continual bribe.
4.	At court every one for himself.
5.	At court there are many hands but few hearts.	Ger.
6.	At court they sell a good deal of smoke without fire.
7.	Courts keep no almanacs.
8.	Far from court, free from care.
9.	He who would succeed at court must lie sometimes low, sometimes high.	Ger.
10.	It is at courts as it is in ponds, some fish, some frogs.
11.	Leave the court ere the court leaves thee.
12.	Like King Petard's court where every one is master.	Fr.
13.	The steps at court are slippery.	Dan.
14.	There are nine holidays out of seven days. (Hindoo description of a luxurious court.)
15.	Who serves at court dies on straw.	Ital.
	Courtesy.
1.	A courtesy much entreated is half recompensed.
2.	All doors open to courtesy.
3.	Courtesie is cumbersome to them that ken it not.
4.	Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue.
5.	Courtesy that is all on one side cannot last long.	Fr.
6.	Full of courtesy, full of craft.
7.	He may freely receive courtesies who knows how to requite them.
8.	He that asketh a courtesy promiseth a kindness.
9.	In courtesy rather pay a penny too much than too little.
10.	It is a rank courtesy where a man is forced to give thanks for what is his own.
11.	Less of your courtesy and more of your purse.
12.	Lip courtesy avails (or pleases) much and costs little.	Sp.
13.	One of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy.
14.	Pluck not a courtesy in the bud before it is ripe.
15.	The courteous learns his courtesy from the discourteous.	Turk.
16.	Too much courtesy—too much craft.
	Courtier.
1.	A courtier should be without feeling and without honor.	Fr.
2.	An old courtier, a young beggar.
3.	Better a field with the birds than hanging on lords.	Dutch.
4.	Eye-service is the courtier's art.	Dan.
5.	He has a veil upon a veil. (The Italians say, to make a mask with a natural face on the outside.)	Arabian.
6.	Marble polished is neither less hard or less cold; so with courtiers.	Chinese.
7.	The courtier is cringing and servile in adversity.	Chinese.
8.	To be a perfect courtier it is necessary to be without honor and without temper.	Duke of Orleans.
	Covetousness.
1.	A covetous abbot for one offering loses a hundred.
2.	A covetous man does nothing that he should till he dies.
3.	A covetous man has two sources of inquietudes: how to amass money and how to use it.	Cingalese.
4.	A covetous man is a dog in a wheel that roasts meat for others.
5.	A covetous man makes a half-penny of a farthing and a liberal man makes sixpence of it.
6.	A covetous man makes no friend.	Cingalese.
7.	A covetous woman deserves a swindling gallant.
8.	All covet, all lose.	Ital., Dutch.
9.	Covet nothing over much.	Chilo.
10.	Covetous men are condemned to dig in the mines for they know not who.
11.	Covetous men are neither clothed, fed nor respected.
12.	Covetous men live drudges to die wretches.
13.	Covetous men's chests are rich, not they.
14.	Covetousness as well as prodigality brings a man to a morsel of bread.
15.	Covetousness brings nothing home.
16.	Covetousness bursts the bag.	Sp.
17.	Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel.
18.	Covetousness is never satisfied until its mouth is filled with dirt.	Dutch.
19.	Covetousness is the father of unsatisfied desires.	Yorubas. (Africa.)
20.	Covetousness starves other vices.
21.	Even covetous men have sometimes their intervals of generosity.
22.	That which we may live without, we need not much covet.
23.	The world is too small for the covetous.	Lat.
24.	Those who covet much want much.	Horace.
	Cow.
1.	A cow from afar gives plenty of milk.	Fr.
2.	A cow is not called dappled unless she has a spot.	Dan.
3.	A cow may catch a hare.
4.	A cursed cow has short horns.
5.	All is not butter that comes from a cow.
6.	An ill cow may have a good calf.
7.	Barley straw's good fodder when the cow gives water.
8.	Every cow licks her own calf.	Servian.
9.	He that owns the cow goes nearest her tail.	Scotch.
10.	He who recovers but the tail of his cow does not lose all.	Fr.
11.	If you buy the cow take the tail into the bargain.
12.	If you sell the cow you sell her milk too.
13.	It is by the head the cow gi'es milk. (By good feeding.)
14.	It is not for the good of the cow when she is driven in a carriage.	Dan.
15.	It is not until the cow has lost her tail that she discovers its value.	Ger.
16.	It is the old cow's notion that she never was a calf.	Fr.
17.	Let him who owns the cow take her by the tail.
18.	Like the cow that gives a good pail of milk and then kicks it over.
19.	Like Mrs. Peabody's cow that drank all the swill and gave no milk.	Gen. Jo. Geiger.
20.	Loud in the loan was never a good milch cow.
21.	Many a cow stands in the meadow and looks wistfully at the common.	Dan.
22.	Many a good cow has a bad calf.	Ger.
23.	Milk the cow but don't pull off the udder.	Dutch.
24.	Of what use is it that the cow gives plenty of milk if she upset the pail.	Ger.
25.	The beadle's cow may graze in the church-yard.	Ger., Dutch.
26.	The cow gives good milk but kicks over the pail.
27.	The cow gives milk through her mouth. (As she is fed.)	Ger.
28.	The cow is milked, not the ox; the sheep is shorn, not the horse.	Dan.
29.	The cow licks no strange calf.
30.	The cow that does not eat with the oxen, either eats before or after them.	Galician.
31.	The cows that low most give the least milk.	Ger.
32.	The cow that's first up gets the first o' the dew.
33.	The day is sure to come when the cow will want her tail.	Dan.
34.	The laggard cow gets the sour grass.	Dan.
35.	'Tis well that wicked cows have short horns.	Dutch.
36.	To come home like the parson's cow with a calf at her foot.
	Cowardice.
1.	A coward calls himself cautious and a miser thrifty.	Seneca.
2.	A coward often deals a mortal blow to the brave.	Fr.
3.	A coward's fear may make a coward valiant.
4.	A valiant man's look is better than a coward's sword.	Carl Seelbach.
5.	Better be a coward than foolhardy.	Fr.
6.	Better fight with a hero than play with a coward.	Ger.
7.	Between two cowards, he has the advantage who first detects the other.	Ital.
8.	But look for ruin when a coward wins, For fear and cruelty are ever twins.	Aleyn.
9.	Coward against coward the assailant conquers.	Sp.
10.	Cowards are cruel.
11.	Cowards are made to be trampled on unless their wit cover them.
12.	Cowards die many times before their death; The valiant never taste death but once.	Shaks.
13.	Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.	Queen Elizabeth.
14.	Cowards have no luck.	Ger.
15.	Cowards never use their might Except against such as will not fight.	Butler.
16.	Cowards run the greatest danger of any men in battle.
17.	Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce.	Ital.
18.	Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen.
19.	Cowardice leads to ingratitude and ungrateful sentiments to wicked actions.	Arabian.
20.	For whom sword and courage are not enough, corslet and lance will not be enough.	Sp.
21.	Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.	Lucan.
22.	He has acted with the spirit of a woman, i.e., without courage.	Hindoo.
23.	Hidden valor is as bad as cowardice.	Latin.
24.	It is cowardly to fly from a living enemy or to abuse a dead one.	Dan.
25.	It is cowardly to quit the post assigned us by God before he permits us.	Pythagoras.
26.	Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
27.	Of two cowards, the one that attacks conquers the other.	Por.
28.	One coward makes ten.	Ger.
29.	Plenty and peace binds cowards.	Shaks.
30.	Put a coward to his mettle and he'll fight the devil.
31.	Strength avails not a coward.	Ital.
32.	Tears are no proof of cowardice.	Sterne.
33.	The coward may begin hostilities, but the brave are left to shed their blood in the quarrel.	Julius Auspex.
34.	When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.	Dr. Sewell.
	Coxcomb.
1.	Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.
	Crab.
1.	The crab has not learned to keep his legs straight.	M. Greek.
2.	The crab has stuck fast between two stones. (Said of a person in difficulty.)	Kaffir.
3.	The crab of the wood is sauce very good for the crab of the sea, But the wood of the crab is sauce for the drab, that will not her husband obey.
4.	The greatest crabs are not always the best meat.
5.	You can never bring a crab to walk straight.
6.	You look like a runner quoth the devil to the crab.
	Cradle.
1.	Better have one plough going than two cradles.
2.	Cast not thy cradle over thy head.
3.	No great work worthy of praise or memory but came out of a poor cradle.	Dr. Johnson.
4.	What is learned in the cradle lasts to the grave.	Fr.
	Craft.
1.	Be not ashamed of your craft.	Ger.
2.	Every one is a thief in his own craft.	Dutch.
3.	He who is of the craft can discourse about it.	Ital.
4.	No man is his craft's master the first day.
5.	Of all crafts an honest man's the master craft.
6.	“Success to you. God speed the craft,” as the hangman said to the judge.	Ger.
7.	There is craft in daubing, or there is more craft in daubing than in throwing dirt on the wall.
	Craft, Crafty.
1.	A crafty fellow never has any peace.
2.	A crafty knave needs no broker.
3.	All the craft is in the catching.
4.	Craft borders on knavery; wisdom neither uses nor wants it.
5.	Craft, counting all things, brings nothing home.
6.	Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
7.	Crafty evasions save not veracity.
8.	Crafty men deal in generals.
9.	Cunning craft is but the waste of wisdom.
10.	No man has a monopoly of craft to himself.
	Crazy.
1.	A crazy vessel never falls from the hand.	Sp.
	Credit.
1.	A man has just so much credit as he has money in his possession.	Juvenal.
2.	A pig on credit makes a good winter and a bad spring.	Por.
3.	Better to take eight hundred than sell (on credit) for a thousand cash.	Chinese.
4.	Better twenty per cent. on ready money than thirty per cent. on credit.	Chinese.
5.	Credit cuts off customers.	Chinese.
6.	Credit is better than ill won gear.
7.	Credit helps a man on the horse and sometimes under the ground.	Ger.
8.	Credit is better than gold.	Ger.
9.	Credit is better than ready money.	Ger.
10.	Credit is dead, bad pay killed it.	Ital.
11.	Credit keeps the crown o' the causeway.
12.	Credit lost is a Venice-glass broken which cannot be soldered.
13.	Credit lost is like a broken looking-glass.
14.	He getteth a great deal of credit who payeth but a small debt.
15.	He that has lost his credit is dead to the world.	Ger.
16.	If any one wants to enjoy the good will of his kind let him sell on credit and never collect the money.	Chinese.
17.	More credit can be thrown down in a moment than can be built up in an age.
18.	My capital small and profits slender, On credit my goods I can't surrender.	Chinese.
19.	No man ever lost his credit but who had it not.
20.	Who sells upon credit has much custom but little money.	Ger.
	Creditors.
1.	Creditors have better memories than debtors.
	Credulity.
1.	Credulity is the only vice that can ruin a happy prince.	Turkish Spy.
2.	Credulity thinks others short-sighted.
	Cricket.
1.	In matters of cricket, the fault of the Dutch Is hitting too little and missing too much.
	Crime.
1.	A crime in which many are implicated goes unpunished.	Lucan.
2.	A great crime is in a great man greater.	Massinger.
3.	Be sparing of persons, speak of crimes.	Latin.
4.	Crimes may be secret, yet not secure.
5.	Criminals are punished that others may be amended.	Ital.
6.	Extraordinary crimes call aloud for extraordinary remedies.	Lord Molesworth.
7.	He acts the third crime that defends the first.	Ben Jonson.
8.	He that conceives a crime in thought, contracts the danger of an actual fault.	Dryden.
9.	He who profits by a crime commits it.	Seneca.
10.	One crime has to be concealed by another.	Seneca.
11.	Petty crimes are punished: great, rewarded.	Ben Jonson.
12.	Successful crime is called virtue.	Seneca.
13.	The greater the man the greater the crime.
14.	The prince and even the people are responsible for the crimes they neglect to punish.	Totilla. (See, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)
15.	The success of a criminal is almost instantly followed by the loss of his prize.	Gibbon.
16.	We easily forget crimes known only to ourselves.	Rochefoucauld.
	Cripple.
1.	A cripple in the way out-travels a postman out of the way.	Ben Jonson.
2.	A cripple may catch a hare.
3.	A lame man won't walk with one who is lamer.	Fr.
4.	A lame traveller should get out betimes.
5.	Better to limp upon the right way than to ride upon the wrong.
6.	“Crooked Carlin” quoth the cripple to his wife.	Scotch.
7.	Halt not before a cripple.
8.	I now see which leg you are lame of.
9.	It is hard to halt before a cripple.
10.	Never limp before the lame.	Fr.
11.	The lame goeth as far as the staggerer.
12.	The lame returns sooner than his servant.
13.	We must wait for the lame man.	Fr.
	Critic.
1.	A kindly critic is one who helps you at an awkward pass over the style.	Punch.
2.	Critics are like brushers of other men's clothes.
3.	Critics are men who have failed in literature and art.	Bea.
4.	Criticism is easy, art is difficult.	Fr.
5.	He who is busy criticising the faults of his friends has no friendship in his heart.	Cingalese.
6.	It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.	Bea.
	Crooked.
1.	A crooked log is not to be straightened.	Lat.
2.	A crooked log makes a good fire.	Fr.
3.	A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.
4.	Crooked by nature is never made straight by education.
5.	Crooked iron may be straightened with a hammer.	Dan.
6.	Crooked logs make straight fires.
	Cross.
1.	Crosses are ladders which lead to heaven.
2.	Crosses though not pleasant are wholesome.
3.	Each cross has its inscription.
4.	Every house has its cross.	Dutch.
5.	Every one bears his own cross.	Fr.
6.	Every one thinks his own cross the heaviest.	Ital.
7.	He that bears the cross blesses himself first.	Dan.
8.	No cross—no crown.
9.	The cross is the ladder of heaven.
10.	There grows no grass at the cross.
11.	To every one his own cross is heaviest.	Ital.
12.	“We must bear our cross with patience,” said the man when he took his wife on his back.	Dan.
	Crow.
1.	A crow does not pick out a crow's eyes.	M. Greek.
2.	A crow is never the whiter for often washing.	Dan.
3.	An old crow croaks not for nothing.	Russian.
4.	Crows are black all the world over.	Chinese.
5.	Crows are never the whiter for washing themselves.
6.	Crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them.
7.	Crows do not peck out crow's eyes.	Por.
8.	It is ill killing a crow with an empty sling.
9.	It is not every hog that the crow will ride.	Dan.
10.	Old crows are hard to catch.	Ger.
11.	One crow does not make a winter.	Ger., Dutch.
12.	The crow thinks his own bird fairest.
13.	The crow when stripped of her borrowed feathers excites our laughter.	Horace.
14.	The crow will find its mate.	Dan.
15.	When the crow flies her tail follows.
	Crowd.
1.	A crowd is not company.
2.	He who does not mix with the crowd knows nothing.	Sp.
3.	He who follows the crowd has many companions.	Ger.
4.	Men whose counsels you would not take as individuals lead you with ease in a crowd.	Cato.
	Crown.
1.	All laws are broken to obtain a crown.	Sp.
2.	And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.	Shaks.
3.	Cleave to the crown though it hang on a bush.	(Royal Proverbs) Lord Stanley.
4.	The best man in the field is the most worthy of a crown.	Macedonian.
5.	'Tis the fairest flower in his crown.
6.	Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.	Shaks.
	Cruelty.
1.	A cruel heart ill suits a manly mind.	Homer.
2.	A man of cruelty is God's enemy.
3.	Cruelty is a tyrant that is always attended by fear.
4.	Cruelty is the attribute of the devil.
5.	I must be cruel only to be kind.	Shaks.
6.	Men of cruelty are birds of the devil's hatching.
	Cuckoo.
1.	More crafty than the cuckoo.	(A cuckoo lays her eggs in the nests of other birds.)
2.	You are like the cuckoo: you have but one song.
	Cunning.
1.	Cunning has but little honor.	Dan.
2.	Cunning is a sort of short-sightedness.	Addison.
3.	Cunning is no burden.
4.	Cunning men's cloaks sometimes fall.
5.	The greatest cunning is to have none at all.	Fr.
6.	The most cunning are the first caught.	Fr.
7.	There is cunning in a pointed chin.	Ger.
8.	Too much cunning undoes.
9.	You are so cunning you know not what weather it is when it rains.
	Cup.
1.	A full cup must be carried steadily.
2.	A man should not, while drinking from one cup, look into another.	Hebrew.
3.	The cup finds not out its master's death. (Meaning, because it passes into others' hands.)	Wolofs. (Africa.)
4.	When the cup is full, carry it even.
5.	You drink out of an old cup; i.e., are descended from an old family.	Kaffir.
6.	You may silver scour a pewter-cup, It will be pewter still.
	Cure.
1.	Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.	Dan.
2.	Good language cures great sores.
3.	It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.	Seneca.
4.	No cure no pay.	Chinese rule as to physicians.
5.	That sick man is not to be pitied that has his cure in his sleeve.
6.	The cure is not always worth the pains.	Marius the Roman.
7.	The cure may be worse than the disease.
8.	The purse of the patient protracts his cure.	Ger.
9.	To cure every one with the same ointment.
10.	To fear the worst oft cures the worst.
11.	Ulcers cannot be cured that are concealed.
12.	What cannot be cured must be endured.	Ger., Dutch.
	Curiosity.
1.	Babbling, foolish vanity, and vain curiosity have the same parentage.	La Fontaine.
2.	Curiosity often brings its own punishment.	Hans Andersen.
3.	He that peeps in at his neighbor's window may chance to lose his eyes.	Arabian.
4.	He that pryeth into the clouds may be struck with a thunderbolt.
5.	He who peeps through a hole may see what will vex him.
6.	Her hands are on the wheel, but her eyes are in the street.
	Curse.
1.	A curse will not strike out an eye unless the fist goes with it.	Dan.
2.	A sedgly curse light on him; i.e., the devil ride through him booted and spurred with a scythe at his back.	Massinger.
3.	A thousand curses never tore a shirt.	Syriac.
4.	Curses are like processions; they return to whence they came.	Ital.
5.	Curses are like young chickens and still come home to roost.
6.	Curses are the devil's language.
7.	Curses hurt not—prayers injure not.	Ger.
8.	Curses sing the devil to mass.	Ger.
9.	Cussin' de weather is mighty poo' farmin'.	American Negro.
10.	He is pattering the devil's pater noster.	(Cursing.)
11.	The curse on the hearth wounds the deepest.	Dan.
12.	The curse sticks to no one but the curser.	Ger.
13.	The lips that curse shall want bread.	Polish.
14.	Who curses prays to the devil.	Ger.
	Cursed.
1.	Cursed is he of whom all men speak well.
	Curtain Lecture.
1.	The chamber bell (curtain lecture) is the worst sound a man can have in his ears.	Ital.
	Custom.
1.	A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.
2.	A cake and a bad custom ought to be broken.	Fr.
3.	Bad customs are better broken than kept up.
4.	Be a custom good or bad a peasant will have it continue in force.	Sp.
5.	Break the legs of an evil custom (or habit).
6.	Conform to common custom and not to common folly.
7.	Custom does often reason overrule, And only serves for reason to the fool.	Rochester.
8.	Custom in infancy becomes nature in old age.
9.	Custom is second nature.	Ital., Ger., Sp., Dutch.
10.	Custom is the guide of the ignorant.
11.	Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
12.	Custom makes all things easy.
13.	Custom without reason is but an ancient error.
14.	Every country has its custom.	Sp.
15.	Every land has its own custom, every wheel its own spindle.	Por.
16.	Follow the customs or fly the country.	Dan.
17.	How much of injustice and depravity is sanctioned by custom.	Terence.
18.	In each country, its custom.	Don Quixote.
19.	It is a custom More honored in the breach than the observance.	Shaks.
20.	National customs are national honors.	Dan.
21.	Old custom without truth is but an old error.
22.	Once an use and ever a custom.
23.	Once is no custom.	Fr., Dutch.
24.	So many countries, so many customs.	Ital., Ger.
25.	The empire of custom is most mighty.	Syrus.
26.	Tyrant custom makes a slave of reason.
	Cut-purse.
1.	A cut-purse is a sure trade, for he hath ready money when his work is done.

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