=Ca' (drive) a cow to the ha' (hall), and she'll
rin to the byre.= _Sc. Pr._
=Cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd.= _Macb._, iii. 4.
=Cacoëthes carpendi=--An itch for fault-finding. 25
=Cacoëthes scribendi=--An itch for scribbling.
=Cacoëthes loquendi=--An itch for talking.
=Cada cousa a seu tempo=--Everything has its
time. _Port. Pr._
=Cada qual en seu officio=--Every one to his trade.
_Port. Pr._
=Cada qual hablé en lo que sabe=--Let every one
talk of what he understands. _Sp. Pr._
=Cada uno es hijo de sus obras=--Every one is
the son of his own works; _i.e._, is responsible for
his own acts. _Sp. Pr._
=Cadenti porrigo dextram=--I extend my right 30
hand to a falling man. _M._
=Cadit quæstio=--The question drops, _i.e._, the point
at issue needs no further discussion. _L._
=Cæca invidia est, nec quidquam aliud scit quam
detrectare virtutes=--Envy is blind, and can
only disparage the virtues of others. _Livy._
=Cæca regens vestigia filo=--Guiding blind steps
by a thread.
=Cæsarem vehis, Cæsarisque fortunam=--You
carry Cæsar and his fortunes; fear not, therefore.
_Cæsar to a pilot in a storm._
=Cæsar non supra grammaticos=--Cæsar has no 35
authority over the grammarians. _Pr._
=Cæsar's wife should be above suspicion.= _Plut._
=Cæteris major qui melior=--He who is better than
others is greater. _M._
=Cahier des charges=--Conditions of a contract.
_Fr._
=Ça ira=--It shall go on (a French Revolution song).
_Ben. Franklin._
=Caisse d'amortissement=--Sinking fund. _Fr._ 40
=Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius=--The
mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
_Sen._
=Calamity is man's true touchstone=--_Beaumont
and Fletcher._
=Calf love, half love; old love, cold love.= _Fris.
Pr._
=Call a spade a spade.=
=Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps= 45
=are all a clear Because to a clear Why.=
_Lavater._
=Callida junctura=--Skilful arrangement. _Hor._
=Call me what instrument you will, though you
fret me, you cannot play on me.= _Ham._,
iii. 2.
=Call not that man wretched who, whatever ills
he suffers, has a child he loves.= _Southey,
Coleridge._
=Call not the devil; he will come fast enough
without.= _Dan. Pr._
=Call your opinions your creed, and you will= 50
=change it every week. Make your creed
simply and broadly out of the revelation of
God, and you may keep it to the end.= _P.
Brooks._
=Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur. The
vulgar, far from hiding their will, blab their
wishes. A single spark of occasion discharges
the child of passions into a thousand
crackers of desire.= _Lavater._
=Calumnies are sparks which, if you do not
blow them, will go out of themselves.= _Boerhaave._
=Calumny is like the wasp which worries you;
which it were best not to try to get rid of,
unless you are sure of slaying it, for otherwise
it will return to the charge more furious
than ever.= _Chamfort._
=Calumny will sear / Virtue itself: these shrugs,
these hums and ha's.= _Winter's Tale_, ii. 1.
=Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit=--The 55
camel begging for horns was deprived
of his ears as well. _Pr._
=Campos ubi Troja fuit=--The fields where Troy
once stood. _Lucan._
=Campus Martius=--A place of military exercise
(_lit._ field of Mars).
=Canaille=--The rabble. _Fr._
=Canam mihi et Musis=--I will sing to myself and
the Muses, _i.e._, if no one else will listen. _Anon._
="Can" and "shall," well understood, mean the
same thing under this sun of ours.= _Carlyle._
=Can anybody remember when the times were
not hard and money not scarce? or when
sensible men, and the right sort of men, and
the right sort of women, were plentiful?=
_Emerson._
=Can ch' abbaia non morde=--A dog that barks
does not bite. _It. Pr._
=Can che morde non abbaia in vano=--A dog that
bites does not bark in vain. _It. Pr._
=Can despots compass aught that hails their= 5
=sway? / Or call with truth one span of earth
their own, / Save that wherein at last they
crumble bone by bone?= _Byron._
=Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras=--Wide-robed
peace becomes men, ferocious anger
only wild beasts. _Ovid._
=Candide et caute=--With candour and caution. _M._
=Candide et constanter=--With candour and constancy.
_M._
=Candide secure=--Honesty is the best policy. _M._
=Candidus in nauta turpis color: æquoris unda /= 10
=Debet et a radiis sideris esse niger=--A fair
complexion is a disgrace in a sailor; he ought to
be tanned, from the spray of the sea and the rays
of the sun. _Ovid._
="Can do" is easy (easily) carried aboot.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Candor dat viribus alas=--Candour gives wings to
strength. _M._
=Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.=
_Disraeli._
=Canes timidi vehementius latrant quam mordent=--Cowardly
dogs bark more violently than
they bite. _Q. Curt._
=Cane vecchio non abbaia indarno=--An old dog 15
does not bark for nothing. _It. Pr._
=Can I choose my king? I can choose my King
Popinjay, and play what farce or tragedy I
may with him; but he who is to be my ruler,
whose will is higher than my will, was chosen
for me in heaven.= _Carlyle._
=Canina facundia=--Dog (_i.e._, snarling) eloquence.
_Appius._
=Canis a non canendo=--Dog is called "canis," from
"non cano," not to sing. _Varro._
=Canis in præsepi=--The dog in the manger (that
would not let the ox eat the hay which he could
not eat himself).
=Cannon and firearms are cruel and damnable= 20
=machines. I believe them to have been the
direct suggestion of the devil.= _Luther._
=Can storied urn or animated bust / Back to
its mansion call the fleeting breath? / Can
honour's voice provoke the silent dust, /
Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?=
_Gray._
=Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, /
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, /
Raze out the written troubles of the brain? /
And with some sweet oblivious antidote, /
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous
stuff / Which weighs upon the heart?= _Macb._,
v. 3.
=Can such things be, / And overcome us like
a summer's cloud, / Without our special
wonder?= _Macb._, iii. 4.
=Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator=--The
penniless traveller will sing in presence of the
robber. _Juv._
=Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy,= 25
=doubt, be in religion, what we priests
term it, the greatest of sins?= _Bovee._
=Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the
leopard his spots?= _Bible._
=Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?=
_Nathanael._
=Cantilenam eandem canis=--You are always singing
the same tune, _i.e._, harping on one theme.
_Ter._
=Cant is properly a double-distilled lie, the
second power of a lie.= _Carlyle._
=Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolonging= 30
=of a real sentiment.= _Hazlitt._
=Can wealth give happiness? look around and
see, / What gay distress! what splendid
misery! / Whatever fortunes lavishly can
pour, / The mind annihilates and calls for
more.= _Young._
=Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten,
when their noblest and most enduring
works decay?= _Ausonius._
="Can you tell a plain man the plain road to
heaven?"--"Surely. Turn at once to the
right, then go straight forward."= _Bp. Wilberforce._
=Caõ que muito ladra, nunca bom para a caça=--A
dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
_Port. Pr._
=Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all= 35
=kinds of treason, raised to the second power,
woman is at once the delight and the terror
of man.= _Amiel._
=Capacity without education is deplorable, and
education without capacity is thrown away.=
_Saadi._
=Cap-à-pié=--From head to foot. _Fr._
=Capias=--A writ to order the seizure of a defendant's
person. _L._
=Capias ad respondendum=--You may take him to
answer your complaint. _L._
=Capias ad satisfaciendum=--You may take him 40
to satisfy your claim. _L._
=Capiat, qui capere possit=--Let him take who
can. _Pr._
=Capistrum maritale=--The matrimonial halter.
_Juv._
=Capitis nives=--The snowy locks of the head.
_Hor._
=Capo grasso, cervello magro=--Fat head, lean
brains. _It. Pr._
=Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can= 45
=befall man.= _Cervantes._
=Captivity, / That comes with honour, is true
liberty.= _Massinger._
=Captum te nidore suæ putat ille culinæ=--He
thinks he has caught you with the savoury smell
of his kitchen. _Juv._
=Caput artis est, decere quod facias=--The chief
thing in any art you may practise is that you do
only the one you are fit for. _Pr._
=Caput inter nubila condit=--(Fame) hides her
head amid the clouds. _Virg._
=Caput mortuum=--The worthless remains; a ninny. 50
=Caput mundi=--The head of the world, _i.e._, Rome,
both ancient and modern.
=Cara al mio cuor tu sei, / Ciò ch'è il sole agli
occhi miei=--Thou art as dear to my heart as the
sun to my eyes. _It. Pr._
=Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse.=
_Dan. Pr._
=Care is no cure, but rather a corrosive, / For
things that are not to be remedied.= 1 _Hen.
VI._, iii. 3.
=Care is taken that trees do not grow into the
sky.= _Goethe._
=Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
/ And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.=
_Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=Care killed the cat.= _Pr._ 5
=Carelessness is worse than theft.= _Gael. Pr._
=Careless their merits or their faults to scan, /
His pity gave ere charity began.= _Goldsmith._
=Care's an enemy to life.= _Twelfth Night_, i. 3.
=Cares are often more difficult to throw off than
sorrows; the latter die with time, the former
grow with it.= _Jean Paul._
=Care that has enter'd once into the breast, /= 10
=Will have the whole possession ere it rest.=
_Ben Jonson._
=Caret=--It is wanting.
=Caret initio et fine=--It has neither beginning nor
end.
=Caret periculo, qui etiam cum est tutus cavet=--He
is not exposed to danger who, even when
in safety, is on his guard. _Pub. Syr._
=Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, / And
every grin, so merry, draws one out.= _Wolcot._
=Care will kill a cat, but ye canna live without= 15
=it.= _Sc. Pr._
=Carica volontario non carica=--A willing burden
is no burden. _It. Pr._
=Car il n'est si beau jour qui n'amène sa nuit=--There
is no day, however glorious, but sets in
night. _Fr._
=Carior est illis homo quam sibi=--Man is dearer
to them (_i.e._, the gods) than to himself. _Juv._
=Cari sunt parentes, cari liberi, propinqui, familiares;
sed omnes omnium caritates, patria
una complexa est=--Dear are our parents, dear
our children, our relatives, and our associates, but
all our affections for all these are embraced in
our affection for our native land. _Cic._
=Carmen perpetuum primaque origine mundi= 20
=ad tempora nostra=--A song for all ages, and
from the first origin of the world to our own
times. _Transposed from Ovid._
=Carmen triumphale=--A song of triumph.
=Carmina nil prosunt; nocuerunt carmina quondam=--My
rhymes are of no use; they once
wrought me harm. _Ovid._
=Carmina spreta exolescunt; si irascare, agnita
videntur=--Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually
die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you
will be thought to have deserved it. _Tac._
=Carmine di superi placantur, carmine Manes=--The
gods above and the gods below are alike
propitiated by song. _Hor._
=Carmine fit vivax virtus; expersque sepulcri,= 25
=notitiam seræ posteritatis habet=--By verse
virtue is made immortal; and, exempt from
burial, obtains the homage of remote posterity.
_Ovid._
=Carpet knights.= _Burton._
=Carpe diem=--Make a good use of the present.
_Hor._
=Carry on every enterprise as if all depended
on the success of it.= _Richelieu._
=Carte blanche=--Unlimited power to act (_lit._ blank
paper). _Fr._
=Car tel est votre plaisir=--For such is your pleasure. 30
_Fr._
=Casa hospidada, comida y denostada=--A house
which is filled with guests is both eaten up and
spoken ill of. _Sp. Pr._
=Casa mia, casa mia, per piccina che tu sia, tu
mi sembri una badia=--Home, dear home, small
though thou be, thou art to me a palace. _It.
Pr._
=Casar, casar, e que do governo?=--Marry, marry,
and what of the management of the house? _Port.
Pr._
=Casar, casar, soa bem, e sabe mal=--Marrying
sounds well, but tastes ill. _Port. Pr._
=Cassis tutissima virtus=--Virtue is the safest 35
helmet. _M._
=Casta ad virum matrona parendo imperat=--A
chaste wife acquires an influence over her husband
by obeying him. _Laber._
=Casta moribus et integra pudore=--Of chaste
morals and unblemished modesty. _Mart._
=Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.=
_Tennyson._
=Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living,
ever-working universe. It is a seed-grain
that cannot die; unnoticed to-day, it
will be found flourishing as a banyan-grove,
perhaps, alas! as a hemlock forest, after a
thousand years.= _Carlyle._
=Cast him (a lucky fellow) into the Nile, and he= 40
=will come up with a fish in his mouth.= _Arab.
Pr._
=Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=Castor gaudet equis, ovo prognatus eodem /
Pugnis=--Castor delights in horses; he that
sprung from the same egg, in boxing. _Hor._
=Castrant alios, ut libros suos, per se graciles,
alieno adipe suffarciant=--They castrate the
books of others, that they may stuff their own
naturally lean ones with their fat. _Jovius._
=Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt
find it after many days.= _Bible._
=Cast thy bread upon the waters; God will= 45
=know of it, if the fishes do not.= _Eastern
Pr._
=Casus belli=--A cause for war; originally, fortune
of war.
=Casus quem sæpe transit, aliquando invenit=--Misfortune
will some time or other overtake him
whom it has often passed by. _Pub. Syr._
=Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus.
/ Quo minimè credas gurgite, piscis erit=--There
is scope for chance everywhere; let your
hook be always hanging ready. In the eddies
where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
_Ovid._
=Catalogue raisonné=--A catalogue topically arranged.
_Fr._
=Catch as catch can.= _Antiochus Epiphanes._ 50
=Catching a Tartar=, _i.e._, an adversary too strong
for one.
=Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance.=
_Pr._
=Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; /
Improve each moment as it flies; / Life's
a short summer--man a flower--/ He dies--alas!
how soon he dies!= _Johnson._
=Catholicism commonly softens, while Protestantism
strengthens, the character; but the
softness of the one often degenerates into
weakness, and the strength of the other into
hardness.= _Lecky._
=Cato contra mundum=--Cato against the world.
=Cato esse, quam videri, bonus malebat=--Cato
would rather be good than seem good. _Sallust._
=Cattiva è quella lana, che non si può tingere=--Bad
is the cloth that won't dye. _It. Pr._
=Cattivo è quel sacco che non si puo rappezzare=--Bad 5
is the sack that won't patch. _It. Pr._
=Cattle go blindfold to the common to crop the
wholesome herbs, but man learns to distinguish
what is wholesome (Heil) and what is
poisonous (Gift) only by experience.= _Rückert._
=Catus amat pisces, sed non vult tingere plantas=--Puss
likes fish, but does not care to wet her
feet. _Pr._
=Causa causans=--The Cause of causes.
=Causa latet, vis est notissima=--The cause is
hidden, but the effect is evident enough. _Ovid._
=Causa sine qua non=--An indispensable condition. 10
=Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.=
_Emerson._
=Cause and effect, means and end, seed and
fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect
already blooms in the cause, the end preexists
in the means, the fruit in the seed.=
_Emerson._
=Cause célèbre=--A celebrated trial or action at
law. _Fr._
=Caute, non astute=--Cautiously, not craftily. _M._
=Caution is the parent of safety.= _Pr._ 15
=Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and
only credits what experience tells.= _Johnson._
=Cautis pericla prodesse aliorum solent=--Prudent
people are ever ready to profit from the
experiences of others. _Phædr._
=Cautus enim metuit foveam lupus, accipiterque
/ Suspectos laqueos, et opertum miluus hamum=--For
the wary wolf dreads the pitfall, the
hawk the suspected snare, and the fish the concealed
hook. _Hor._
=Cavallo ingrassato tira calci=--A horse that is
grown fat kicks. _It. Pr._
=Cave ab homine unius libri=--Beware of a man of 20
one book. _Pr._
=Caveat actor=--Let the doer be on his guard.
_L._
=Caveat emptor=--Let the buyer be on his guard.
_L._
=Cave canem=--Beware of the dog.
=Cavendo tutus=--Safe by caution. _M._
=Cave paratus=--Be on guard while prepared. 25
_M._
=Caviare to the general.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, / But
leave,--oh! leave the light of hope behind! /
What though my winged hours of bliss have
been, / Like angel-visits, few and far between?=
_Campbell._
=Cease to lament for that thou canst not help, /
And study help for that which thou lament'st.=
_Two Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.
=Cedant arma togæ=--Let the military yield to the
civil power (_lit._ to the gown). _Cic._
=Cedant carminibus reges, regumque triumphi=--Kings, 30
and the triumphs of kings, must yield
to the power of song. _Ovid._
=Cedat amor rebus; res age, tutus eris=--Let
love give way to business; give attention to
business, and you will be safe. _Ovid._
=Cede Deo=--Yield to God. _Virg._
=Cede nullis=--Yield to none. _M._
=Cede repugnanti; cedendo victor abibis=--Yield
to your opponent; by so doing you will come off
victor in the end. _Ovid._
=Cedite, Romani scriptores; cedite, Graii=--Give 35
place, ye Roman writers; give place, ye Greeks
(ironically applied to a pretentious author).
_Prop._
=Cedunt grammatici; vincuntur rhetores; /
Turba tacet=--The grammarians give way; the
rhetoricians are beaten off; all the assemblage is
silent. _Juv._
=Cela fera comme un coup d'épée dans l'eau=--It
will be all lost labour (_lit._ like a sword-stroke
in the water). _Fr. Pr._
=Cela m'échauffe la bile=--That stirs up my bile.
_Fr._
=Cela n'est pas de mon ressort=--That is not in
my department, or line of things. _Fr._
=Cela saute aux yeux=--That is quite evident 40
(_lit._ leaps to the eyes). _Fr. Pr._
=Cela va sans dire=--That is a matter of course.
_Fr._
=Cela viendra=--That will come some day. _Fr._
=Celebrity is but the candle-light which will
show= _what_ =man, not in the least make him
a better or other man.= _Carlyle._
=Celebrity is the advantage of being known to
people whom we don't know, and who don't
know us.= _Chamfort._
=Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the= 45
=punishment of talent.= _Chamfort._
=Celer et audax=--Swift and daring. _M._
=Celer et fidelis=--Swift and faithful. _M._
=Celerity is never more admired / Than by the
negligent.= _Ant. & Cleop._, iii. 7.
=Celsæ graviore casu / Decidunt turres=--Lofty
towers fall with no ordinary crash. _Hor._
=Celui est homme de bien qui est homme de= 50
=biens=--He is a good man who is a man of goods.
_Fr. Pr._
=Celui-là est le mieux servi, qui n'a pas besoin
de mettre les mains des autres au bout de
ses bras=--He is best served who has no need
to put other people's hands at the end of his
arms. _Rousseau._
=Celui qui a grand sens sait beaucoup=--A man
of large intelligence knows a great deal. _Vauvenargues._
=Celui qui aime mieux ses trésors que ses amis,
mérite de n'être aimé de personne=--He who
loves his wealth better than his friends does not
deserve to be loved by any one. _Fr. Pr._
=Celui qui dévore la substance du pauvre, y
trouve à la fin un os qui l'étrangle=--He who
devours the substance of the poor will in the end
find a bone in it to choke him. _Fr. Pr._
=Celui qui est sur épaules d'un géant voit plus= 55
=loin que celui qui le porte=--He who is on the
shoulders of a giant sees farther than he does
who carries him. _Fr. Pr._
=Celui qui veut, celui-là peut=--The man who wills
is the man who can. _Fr._
=Ce ne sont pas les plus belles qui font les
grandes passions=--It is not the most beautiful
women that inspire the greatest passion. _Fr.
Pr._
=Ce n'est pas être bien aisé que de rire=--Laughing
is not always an index of a mind at ease.
_Fr._
=Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coûte=--It is
only the first step that is difficult (_lit._ costs).
_Fr._
=Censor morum=--Censor of morals and public conduct.
=Censure is the tax a man pays to the public
for being eminent.= _Swift._
=Cent ans n'est guère, mais jamais c'est beaucoup=--A 5
hundred years is not much, but "never"
is a long while. _Fr. Pr._
=Cento carri di pensieri, non pagaranno un'
oncia di debito=--A hundred cartloads of care
will not pay an ounce of debt. _It. Pr._
=Cent 'ore di malinconia non pagano un quattrino
di' debito=--A hundred hours of vexation
will not pay one farthing of debt. _It. Pr._
=Centum doctûm hominum consilia sola hæc
devincit dea / Fortuna=--This goddess, Fortune,
single-handed, frustrates the plans of a
hundred learned men. _Plaut._
=Ce que femme veut, Dieu le veut=--What woman
wills, God wills. _Fr. Pr._
=Ce qui fait qu'on n'est pas content de sa condition,= 10
=c'est l'idée chimérique qu'on forme
du bonheur d'autrui=--What makes us discontented
with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated
idea we have of the happiness of
others. _Fr. Pr._
=Ce qu'il nous faut pour vaincre, c'est de
l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de
l'audace!=--In order to conquer, what we need
is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
_Danton._
=Ce qui manque aux orateurs en profondeur, /
Ils vous le donnent en longueur=--What orators
want in depth, they make up to you in length.
_Montesquieu._
=Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le
chante=--What is not worth the trouble of being
said, may pass off very fairly when it is sung.
_Beaumarchais._
=Ce qui suffit ne fut jamais peu=--What is enough
was never a small quantity. _Fr. Pr._
=Ce qui vient de la flûte, s'en retourne au tambour=--What 15
is earned by the fife goes back to
the drum; easily gotten, easily gone. _Fr. Pr._
=Ce qu'on apprend au berceau dure jusqu'au
tombeau=--What is learned in the cradle lasts
till the grave. _Fr. Pr._
=Ce qu'on fait maintenant, on le dit; et la cause
en est bien excusable: on fait si peu de chose=--Whatever
we do now-a-days, we speak of; and
the reason is this: it is so very little we do.
_Fr._
=Cercato ho sempre solitaria vita / (Le rive il
sanno, e le campagne e i boschi)=--I have
always sought a solitary life. (The river-banks
and the open fields and the groves know it.)
=Ceremonies are different in every country;
but true politeness is everywhere the same.=
_Goldsmith._
=Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and= 20
=defence of manners.= _Chesterfield._
=Ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep
fools at a distance.= _Steele._
=Ceremony keeps up all things; 'tis like a penny
glass to a rich spirit or some excellent water;
without it the water were spilt, the spirit
lost.= _Selden._
=Ceremony leads her bigots forth, / Prepared
to fight for shadows of no worth; / While
truths, on which eternal things depend, /
Find not, or hardly find, a single friend.=
_Cowper._
=Ceremony was but devised at first / To set a
gloss on faint deeds ... / But where there
is true friendship, there needs none.= _Timon
of Athens_, i. 2.
=Cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper=--(Youth), 25
pliable as wax to vice, obstinate under
reproof. _Hor._
=Cernit omnia Deus vindex=--God as avenger sees
all things. _M._
=Certa amittimus dum incerta petimus=--We lose
things certain in pursuing things uncertain.
_Plaut._
=Certain defects are necessary to the existence
of the individual. It would be painful to us
if our old friends laid aside certain peculiarities.=
_Goethe._
=Certain it is that there is no kind of affection
so purely angelic as that of a father to a
daughter. In love to our wives there is
desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our
daughters there is something which there
are no words to express.= _Addison._
=Certe ignoratio futurorum malorum utilius est= 30
=quam scientia=--It is more advantageous not to
know than to know the evils that are coming
upon us. _Cic._
=Certiorari=--To order the record from an inferior
to a superior court. _L._
=Certum est quia impossibile est=--I am sure of
it because it is impossible. _Tert._
=Certum pete finem=--Aim at a definite end. _M._
=Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.=
_Byron._
=Ces discours sont fort beaux dans un livre=--All 35
that would be very fine in a book, _i.e._, in theory,
but not in practice. _Boileau._
=Ces malheureux rois / Dont on dit tant de mal,
ont du bon quelquefois=--Those unhappy kings,
of whom so much evil is said, have their good
qualities at times. _Andrieux._
=Ce sont les passions qui font et qui défont tout=--It
is the passions that do and that undo everything.
_Fontenelle._
=Ce sont toujours les aventuriers qui font de
grandes choses, et non pas les souverains
des grandes empires=--It is always adventurers
who do great things, not the sovereigns of great
empires. _Montesquieu._
=Cessante causa, cessat et effectus=--When the
cause is removed, the effect must cease also. _Coke._
=Cessio bonorum=--A surrender of all one's property 40
to creditors. _Scots Law._
=C'est-à-dire=--That is to say. _Fr._
=C'est dans les grands dangers qu'on voit les
grands courages=--It is amid great perils we
see brave hearts. _Regnard._
=C'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur=--It
is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
_La Font._
=C'est fait de lui=--It is all over with him. _Fr._
=C'est la grande formule moderne: Du travail,= 45
=toujours du travail, et encore du travail=--The
grand maxim now-a-days is: To work,
always to work, and still to work. _Gambetta._
=C'est là le diable=--There's the devil of it, _i.e._,
there lies the difficulty. _Fr._
=C'est la prospérité qui donne des amis, c'est
l'adversité qui les éprouve=--It is prosperity
that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
_Fr._
=C'est le chemin des passions qui m'a conduit
à la philosophie=--It is by my passions I have
been led to philosophy. _Rousseau._
=C'est le commencement de la fin=--It is the
beginning of the end. _Talleyrand on the Hundred
Days._
=C'est le crime qui fait honte, et non pas l'échafaud=--It
is the crime, not the scaffold, which is
the disgrace. _Corneille._
=C'est le gesi paré des plumes du paon=--He is 5
the jay decked with the peacock's feathers. _Fr._
=C'est le ton qui fait la musique=--In music everything
depends on the tone. _Fr. Pr._
=C'est le valet du diable, il fait plus qu'on ne lui
ordonne=--He who does more than he is bid is
the devil's valet. _Fr. Pr._
=C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre
humain=--The human race is governed by its
imagination. _Napoleon._
=C'est partout comme chez nous=--It is everywhere
the same as among ourselves. _Fr. Pr._
=C'est peu que de courir; il faut partir à point=--It 10
is not enough to run, one must set out in time.
_Fr. Pr._
=C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute=--It is
worse than a crime; it is a blunder. _Fouché._
=C'est posséder les biens que de savoir s'en
passer=--To know how to dispense with things
is to possess them. _Regnard._
=C'est son cheval de bataille=--That is his forte
(_lit._ war-horse). _Fr._
=C'est trop aimer quand on en meurt=--It is loving
too much to die of loving. _Fr. Pr._
=C'est une autre chose=--That's another matter. 15
_Fr._
=C'est une grande folie de vouloir être sage
tout seul=--It is a great folly to wish to be wise
all alone. _La Roche._
=C'est une grande misère que de n'avoir pas
assez d'esprit pour bien parler, ni assez de
jugement pour se taire=--It is a great misfortune
not to have enough of ability to speak well,
nor sense enough to hold one's tongue. _La
Bruyère._
=C'est un zéro en chiffres=--He is a mere cipher. _Fr._
=Cet animal est très méchant: / Quand on
l'attaque, il se défend=--That animal is very
vicious; it defends itself if you attack it. _Fr._
=Ceteris paribus=--Other things being equal. 20
=Ceterum censeo=--But my decided opinion is.
_Cato._
=Cet homme va à bride abattue=--That man goes
at full speed (_lit._ with loose reins). _Fr. Pr._
=Ceux qui parlent beaucoup, ne disent jamais
rien=--Those who talk much never say anything
worth listening to. _Boileau._
=Ceux qui s'appliquent trop aux petites choses
deviennent ordinairement incapables des
grandes=--Those who occupy their minds too
much with small matters generally become incapable
of great. _La Roche._
=Chacun à sa marotte=--Every one to his hobby. 25
_Fr. Pr._
=Chacun à son goût=--Every one to his taste. _Fr._
=Chacun à son métier, et les vaches seront bien
gardées=--Let every one mind his own business,
and the cows will be well cared for. _Fr. Pr._
=Chacun cherche son semblable=--Like seeks like.
_Fr. Pr._
=Chacun dit du bien de son cœur et personne
n'en ose dire de son esprit=--Every one speaks
well of his heart, but no one dares boast of his
wit. _La Roche._
=Chacun doit balayer devant sa propre porte=--Everybody 30
ought to sweep before his own door.
_Fr. Pr._
=Chacun en particulier peut tromper et être
trompé; personne n'a trompé tout le monde,
et tout le monde n'a trompé personne=--Individuals
may deceive and be deceived; no
one has deceived every one, and every one has
deceived no one. _Bonhours._
=Chacun n'est pas aise qui danse=--Not every one
who dances is happy. _Fr. Pr._
=Chacun porte sa croix=--Every one bears his
cross. _Fr._
=Chacun pour soi et Dieu pour tous=--Every one
for himself and God for all. _Fr. Pr._
=Chacun tire l'eau à son moulin=--Every one 35
draws the water to his own mill. _Fr. Pr._
=Chacun vaut son prix=--Every man has his value.
_Fr. Pr._
[Greek: Chalepa ta kala]--What is excellent is difficult.
=Chance corrects us of many faults that reason
would not know how to correct.= _La Roche._
=Chance generally favours the prudent.= _Joubert._
=Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those= 40
=particular cases which He does not choose
to subscribe openly with His own sign-manual.=
_Coleridge._
=Chance is the providence of adventurers.=
_Napoleon._
=Chance will not do the work: / Chance sends
the breeze, / But if the pilot slumber at the
helm, / The very wind that wafts us towards
the port / May dash us on the shelves.= _Scott._
=Chances, as they are now called, I regard as
guidances, and even, if rightly understood,
commands, which, as far as I have read
history, the best and sincerest men think
providential.= _Ruskin._
=Change is inevitable in a progressive country--is
constant.= _Disraeli._
=Change of fashions is the tax which industry= 45
=imposes on the vanity of the rich.= _Chamfort._
=Changes are lightsome, an' fules are fond o'
them.= _Sc. Pr._
=Change yourself, and your fortune will change
too.= _Port. Pr._
=Chansons-à-boire=--Drinking-songs. _Fr._
=Chapeau bas=--Hats off. _Fr._
=Chapelle ardente=--Place where a dead body lies 50
in state. _Fr._
=Chapter of accidents.= _Chesterfield._
=Chaque âge a ses plaisirs, son esprit, et ses
mœurs=--Every age has its pleasures, its style
of wit, and its peculiar manners. _Boileau._
=Chaque branche de nos connaissances passe
successivement par trois états théoretiques
différents: l'état théologique, ou fictif; l'état
métaphysique, ou abstrait; l'état scientifique,
ou positif=--Each department of knowledge
passes in succession through three different
theoretic stages: the theologic stage, or fictitious;
the metaphysical, or abstract; the scientific,
or positive. _A. Comte._
=Chaque demain apporte son pain=--Every to-morrow
supplies its own loaf. _Fr. Pr._
=Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la
mort=--Each moment of life is one step nearer
death. _Corneille._
=Chaque médaille a son revers=--Every medal has
its reverse. _Fr. Pr._
=Chaque potier vante sa pot=--Every potter cracks
up his own vessel. _Fr. Pr._
=Char-à-bancs=--A pleasure car. _Fr._ 5
=Character gives splendour to youth, and awe
to wrinkled skin and grey hairs.= _Emerson._
=Character is a fact, and that is much in a
world of pretence and concession.= _A. B.
Alcott._
=Character is a perfectly educated will.= _Novalis._
=Character is a reserved force which acts
directly by presence and without means.=
_Emerson._
=Character is a thing that will take care of= 10
=itself.= _J. G. Holland._
=Character is centrality, the impossibility of
being displaced or overset.= _Emerson._
=Character is higher than intellect. Thinking
is the function; living is the functionary.=
_Emerson._
=Character is impulse reined down into steady
continuance.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=Character is the result of a system of stereotyped
principles.= _Hume._
=Character is the spiritual body of the person,= 15
=and represents the individualisation of vital
experience, the conversion of unconscious
things into self-conscious men.= _Whipple._
=Character is victory organised.= _Napoleon._
=Character is what Nature has engraven on us;
can we then efface it?= _Voltaire._
=Characters are developed, and never change.=
_Disraeli._
=Character teaches over our head, above our
wills.= _Emerson._
=Character wants room; must not be crowded= 20
=on by persons, nor be judged of from glimpses
got in the press of affairs or a few occasions.=
_Emerson._
=Charbonnier est maître chez soi=--A coalheaver's
house is his castle.
=Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on! /
Were the last words of Marmion.= _Scott._
=Chargé d'affaires=--A subordinate diplomatist.
_Fr._
=Charity begins at hame, but shouldna end
there.= _Sc. Pr._
=Charity begins at home.= _Pr._ 25
=Charity draws down a blessing on the charitable.=
_Le Sage._
=Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards
itself poor.= _Ger. Pr._
=Charity is the scope of all God's commands.=
_St. Chrysostom._
=Charity is the temple of which justice is the
foundation, but you can't have the top without
the bottom.= _Ruskin._
=Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.= _St._ 30
_Peter._
=Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name.=
_Cowley._
=Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the
soul.= _Pope._
=Charms which, like flowers, lie on the surface
and always glitter, easily produce vanity;
whereas other excellences, which lie deep
like gold and are discovered with difficulty,
leave their possessors modest and proud.=
_Jean Paul._
=Charta non erubescit=--A document does not
blush. _Pr._
=Chasse cousin=--Bad wine, _i.e._, such as was given 35
to poor relations to drive them off. _Fr._
=Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop=--Drive
out Nature, she is back on you in a trice. _Fr.
from Hor._
=Chaste as the icicle / That's curded by the
frost from purest snow, / And hangs on
Dian's temple.= _Coriolanus_, v. 3.
=Chastise the good, and he will grow better;
chastise the bad, and he will grow worse.=
_It. Pr._
=Chastity is like an icicle; if it once melts,
that's the last of it.= _Pr._
=Chastity is the band that holds together the= 40
=sheaf of all holy affections and duties.=
_Vinet._
=Chastity, lost once, cannot be recalled; it goes
only once.= _Ovid._
=Châteaux en Espagne.=--Castles in the air (_lit._
castles in Spain). _Fr._
=Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide=--A scalded cat
dreads cold water. _Fr. Pr._
=Cheapest is the dearest.= _Pr._
=Che dorme coi cani, si leva colle pulci=--Those 45
who sleep with dogs will rise up with fleas. _It.
Pr._
=Cheerfulness is health; the opposite, melancholy,
is disease.= _Haliburton._
=Cheerfulness is just as natural to the heart
of a man in strong health as colour to his
cheek.= _Ruskin._
=Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health,
and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.=
_Addison._
=Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment.=
_Dr. Horne._
=Cheerfulness is the heaven under which everything= 50
=but poison thrives.= _Jean Paul._
=Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Cheerfulness opens, like spring, all the blossoms
of the inward man.= _Jean Paul._
=Cheese is gold in the morning, silver at mid-day,
and lead at night.= _Ger. Pr._
=Chef de cuisine=--A head-cook. _Fr._
=Chef-d'œuvre=--A masterpiece. _Fr._ 55
=Chemin de fer=--The iron way, the railway. _Fr._
=Che ne può la gatta se la massaia è matta=--How
can the cat help it if the maid is fool (enough
to leave things in her way)? _It. Pr._
=Che quegli è tra gli stolti bene abbasso, / Che
senza distinzion afferma o niega, / Così nell'
un, come nell' altro passo=--He who without
discrimination affirms or denies, ranks lowest
among the foolish ones, and this in either case,
_i.e._, in denying as well as affirming. _Dante._
=Chercher à connaître, c'est chercher à douter=--To
seek to know is to seek occasion to doubt.
_Fr._
=Che sarà, sarà=--What will be, will be. _M._ 60
=Chevalier d'industrie=--One who lives by persevering
fraud (_lit._ a knight of industry). _Fr._
=Chevaux de frise=--A defence of spikes against
cavalry. _Fr._
=Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.=
_As You Like It_, iv. 3.
=Chew the cud of politics.= _Swift._
=Chi altri giudica, sè condanna=--Whoso judges
others condemns himself. _It. Pr._
=Chi ama, crede=--He who loves, believes. _It. Pr._ 5
=Chi ama, qual chi muore / Non ha da gire al
ciel dal mondo altr' ale=--He who loves, as well
as he who dies, needs no other wing by which to
soar from earth to heaven. _Michael Angelo._
=Chi ama, teme=--He who loves, fears. _It. Pr._
=Chi asino è, e cervo esser si crede, al saltar
del fosso se n'avvede=--He who is an ass and
thinks he is a stag, will find his error when he
has to leap a ditch. _It. Pr._
=Chi compra ciò pagar non può, vende ciò che
non vuole=--He who buys what he cannot pay
for, sells what he fain would not. _It. Pr._
=Chi compra ha bisogno di cent occhi=--He who 10
buys requires an hundred eyes. _It. Pr._
=Chi compra terra, compra guerra=--Who buys
land, buys war. _It. Pr._
=Chi con l'occhio vede, di cuor crede=--Seeing is
believing (_lit._ he who sees with the eye believes
with the heart). _It. Pr._
=Chi da il suo inanzi morire s'apparecchia assai
patire=--He who gives of his wealth before dying,
prepares himself to suffer much. _It. Pr._
=Chi dinanzi mi pinge, di dietro mi tinge=--He
who paints me before, blackens me behind. _It.
Pr._
=Chi due padroni ha da servire, ad uno ha da= 15
=mentire=--Whoso serves two masters must lie to
one of them. _It. Pr._
=Chi é causa del suo mal, pianga se stesso=--He
who is the cause of his own misfortunes may
bewail them himself. _It. Pr._
=Chi edifica, sua borsa purifica=--He who builds
clears his purse. _It. Pr._
=Chien sur son fumier est hardi=--A dog is bold
on his own dunghill. _Fr. Pr._
=Chi erra nelle decine, erra nelle migliaja=--He
who errs in the tens, errs in the thousands. _It.
Pr._
=Chiesa libera in libero stato=--A free church in 20
a free state. _Cavour._
=Chi fa il conto senza l'oste, gli convien farlo
due volte=--He who reckons without his host
must reckon again. _It. Pr._
=Chi fa quel ch' e' può, non fa mal bene=--He who
does all he can do never does well. _It. Pr._
=Chi ha capo di cera non vada al sole=--Let not
him whose head is of wax walk in the sun. _It.
Pr._
=Chi ha danari da buttar via, metta gli operaj,
e non vi stia=--He who has money to squander,
let him employ workmen and not stand by them.
_It. Pr._
=Chi ha denti, non ha pane; e chi ha pane, non= 25
=ha denti=--He who has teeth is without bread,
and he who has bread is without teeth. _It. Pr._
=Chi ha, è=--He who has, is.
=Chi ha l'amor nel petto, ha lo sprone a' fianchi=--He
who has love in his heart has spurs in his
sides. _It. Pr._
=Chi ha lingua in bocca, può andar per tutto=--He
who has a tongue in his head can travel all
the world over. _It. Pr._
=Chi ha paura del diavolo, non fa roba=--He who
has a dread of the devil does not grow rich. _It.
Pr._
=Chi ha sanità è ricco, e non lo sa=--He who has 30
good health is rich, and does not know it. _It.
Pr._
=Chi ha sospetto, di rado è in difetto=--He who
suspects is seldom at fault. _It. Pr._
=Chi ha tempo, non aspetti tempo=--He who has
time, let him not wait for time.
=Childhood and youth see all the world in persons.=
_Emerson._
=Childhood has no forebodings; but then it is
soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.=
_George Eliot._
=Childhood is the sleep of reason.= _Rousseau._ 35
=Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than
a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.= _Mrs.
Child._
=Childhood often holds a truth in its feeble
fingers which the grasp of manhood cannot
retain, and which it is the pride of utmost
age to recover.= _Ruskin._
=Childhood shows the man, as morning shows
the day.= _Milton._
=Childhood, who like an April morn appears, /
Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with
fears.= _Churchill._
=Children always turn toward the light.= _Hare._ 40
=Children and chickens are always a-picking.=
_Pr._
=Children and drunk people speak the truth.=
_Pr._
=Children and fools speak the truth.= _Pr._
=Children are certain sorrows, but uncertain
joys.= _Dan. Pr._
=Children are the poor man's wealth.= _Dan. Pr._ 45
=Children are very nice observers, and they
will often perceive your slightest defects.=
_Fénélon._
=Children blessings seem, but torments are, /
When young, our folly, and when old, our
fear.= _Otway._
=Children generally hate to be idle; all the care
is then that their busy humour should be constantly
employed in something of use to them.=
_Locke._
=Children have more need of models than of
critics.= _Joubert._
=Children have scarcely any other fear than= 50
=that produced by strangeness.= _Jean Paul._
=Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a
scent, that they detect and hunt out everything--the
bad before all the rest.= _Goethe._
=Children of night, of indigestion bred.= _Churchill
of dreams._
=Children of wealth or want, to each is given /
One spot of green, and all the blue of heaven.=
_Holmes._
=Children see in their parents the past, they
again in their children the future; and if we
find more love in parents for their children
than in children for their parents, this is sad
indeed, but natural. Who does not fondle
his hopes more than his recollections?= _Eötvös._
=Children should have their times of being off= 55
=duty, like soldiers.= _Ruskin._
=Children should laugh, but not mock; and
when they laugh, it should not be at the
weaknesses and the faults of others.= _Ruskin._
=Children suck the mother when they are young,
and the father when they are old.= _Pr._
=Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes
more bitter.= _Bacon._
=Children tell in the highway what they hear
by the fireside.= _Port. Pr._
=Children think not of what is past, nor what is
to come, but enjoy the present time, which
few of us do.= _La Bruyère._
=Chi lingua ha, a Roma va=--He who has a tongue 5
may go to Rome, _i.e._, may go anywhere. _It.
Pr._
=Chi nasce bella, nasce maritata=--She who is
born a beauty is born married. _It. Pr._
=Chi niente sa, di niente dubita=--He who knows
nothing, doubts nothing. _It. Pr._
=Chi non dà fine al pensare, non dà principio al
fare=--He who is never done with thinking never
gets the length of doing. _It. Pr._
=Chi non ha cuore, abbia gambe=--He who has
no courage should have legs (to run). _It Pr._
=Chi non ha, non è=--He who has not, is not. _It._ 10
_Pr._
=Chi non ha piaghe, se ne fa=--He who has no
worries makes himself some. _It. Pr._
=Chi non ha testa, abbia gambe=--He who has no
brains should have legs. _It. Pr._
=Chi non istima vien stimato=--To disregard is to
win regard. _It. Pr._
=Chi non puo fare come voglia, faccia come puo=--He
who cannot do as he would, must do as he
can. _It. Pr._
=Chi non sa fingere, non sa vivere=--He that 15
knows not how to dissemble knows not how to
live. _It. Pr._
=Chi non vede il fondo, non passi l'acqua=--Who
sees not the bottom, let him not attempt to wade
the water. _It. Pr._
=Chi non vuol servir ad un sol signor, a molto
ha da servir=--He who will not serve one master
will have to serve many. _It. Pr._
=Chi offende, non perdona mai=--He who offends
you never forgives you. _It. Pr._
=Chi offende scrive nella rena, chi è offeso nel
marmo=--He who offends writes on sand; he
who is offended, on marble. _It. Pr._
=Chi parla semina, chi tace raccoglie=--Who 20
speaks, sows; who keeps silence, reaps. _It.
Pr._
=Chi piglia leone in assenza suol temer del topi
in presenza=--He who takes a lion far off will
shudder at a mole close by. _It. Pr._
=Chi più sa, meno crede=--Who knows most, believes
least. _It. Pr._
=Chi più sa, meno parla=--Who knows most, says
least. _It. Pr._
=Chi sa la strada, puo andar di trotto=--He who
knows the road can go at a trot. _It. Pr._
=Chi sa poco presto lo dice=--He who knows little 25
quickly tells it. _It. Pr._
=Chi serve al commune serve nessuno=--He who
serves the public serves no one. _It. Pr._
=Chi si affoga, s'attaccherebbe a' rasoj=--A drowning
man would catch at razors. _It. Pr._
=Chi si fa fango, il porco lo calpestra=--He who
makes himself dirt, the swine will tread on him.
_It. Pr._
=Chi si trova senz' amici, è come un corpo senz'
anima=--He who is without friends is like a body
without a soul. _It. Pr._
=Chi sta bene, non si muova=--Let him who is 30
well off remain where he is. _It. Pr._
=Chi tace confessa=--Silence is confession. _It.
Pr._
=Chi t'ha offeso non ti perdonera mai=--He who
has offended you will never forgive you. _It.
Pr._
=Chi troppo abbraccia nulla stringe=--He who
grasps at too much holds fast nothing. _It. Pr._
=Chi tutto vuole, tutto perde=--Covet all, lose all.
_It. Pr._
=Chivalry was founded invariably by knights= 35
=who were content all their lives with their
horse and armour and daily bread.= _Ruskin._
=Chi va piano, va sano, chi va sano va lontano=--He
who goes softly goes safely, and he who
goes safely goes far. _It. Pr._
=Chi va, vuole; chi manda, non se ha cura=--He
who goes himself, means it; he who sends another
does not care. _It. Pr._
=Chi vuol dell' acqua chiara, vada alla fonte=--He
who wants the water pure must go to the
spring-head. _It. Pr._
=Chi vuol esser mal servito tenga assai famiglia=--Let
him who would be ill served keep plenty
servants. _It. Pr._
=Chi vuol il lavoro mal fatto, paghi innanzi= 40
=tratto=--If you wish your work ill done, pay
beforehand. _It. Pr._
=Chi vuol presto e ben, faccia da se=--He who
wishes a thing done quickly and well, must do
it himself. _It. Pr._
=Choose a good mother's daughter, though her
father were the devil.= _Gael. Pr._
=Choose always the way that seems the best,
however rough it may be. Custom will
render it easy and agreeable.= _Pythagoras._
=Choose an author as you choose a friend.= _Earl
of Roscommon._
=Choose thy speech.= _Gael. Pr._ 45
=Choose your wife as you wish your children
to be.= _Gael. Pr._
=Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure / Thrill
the deepest notes of woe.= _Burns._
=Chose perdue, chose connue=--A thing lost is
a thing known, _i.e._, valued. _Fr. Pr._
[Greek: Chôris to t' eipein polla kai ta kairia]--Volubility
of speech and pertinency are sometimes
very different things. _Sophocles._
=Christen haben keine Nachbarn=--Christians 50
have no neighbours. _Ger. Pr._
=Christianity has not yet penetrated into the
whole heart of Jesus.= _Amiel._
=Christianity appeals to the noblest feelings of
the human heart, and these are emotion and
imagination.= _Shorthouse._
=Christianity has a might of its own; it is raised
above all philosophy, and needs no support
therefrom.= _Goethe._
=Christianity has made martyrdom sublime and
sorrow triumphant.= _Chopin._
=Christianity is a religion that can make men= 55
=good, only if they are good already.= _Hegel._
=Christianity is salvation by the conversion of
the will; humanism by the enlightenment of
the mind.= _Amiel._
=Christianity is the apotheosis of grief, the
marvellous transmutation of suffering into
triumph, the death of death and the defeat
of sin.= _Amiel._
=Christianity is the practical demonstration
that holiness and pity, justice and mercy,
may meet together and become one in man
and in God.= _Amiel._
=Christianity is the root of all democracy, the
highest fact in the rights of men.= _Novalis._
=Christianity is the worship of sorrow.= _Goethe._
=Christianity's husk and shell / Threaten its
heart like a blight.= (_J. B._) _Selkirk_.
=Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour.= 5
=Modern society acknowledges no neighbour.=
_Disraeli._
=Christianity, which is always true to the heart,
knows no abstract virtues, but virtues resulting
from our wants, and useful to all.= _Chateaubriand._
=Christianity without the cross is nothing.= _W.
H. Thomson._
=Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded /
That all the apostles would have
done as they did.= _Byron._
=Christ is not valued at all, unless He is valued
above all.= _St. Augustine._
=Christ left us not a system of logic, but a few= 10
=simple truths.= _B. R. Hayden._
=Christmas comes but once a year.= _Pr._
=Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about
doing good.= _Horace Mann._
=Christ's truth itself may yet be taught / With
something of the devil's spirit.= (_J. B._) _Selkirk_.
=Churches are not built on Christ's principles,
but on His tropes.= _Emerson._
=Ci-devant=--Former. _Fr._ 15
=Cieco è l'occhio, se l'animo è distratto=--The eye
sees nothing if the mind is distracted. _It. Pr._
=Ciencia es locura si buen senso no la cura=--Knowledge
is of little use if it is not under the
direction of good sense. _Sp. Pr._
=Ci-git=--Here lies. _Fr._
=Cineri gloria sera venit=--Glory comes too late
to one in the dust. _Mart._
=Ciò che Dio vuole, io voglio=--What God wills, I 20
will. _M._
=Ciò che si usa, non ha bisogno di scusa=--That
which is customary needs no excuse. _It. Pr._
=Circles are prais'd, not that abound / In
largeness, but th' exactly round; / So life
we praise, that does excel, / Not in much
time, but acting well.= _Waller._
=Circles in water as they wider flow, / The less
conspicuous in their progress grow, / And
when at last they trench upon the shore, /
Distinction ceases, and they're view'd no
more.= _Crabbe._
=Circles to square, and cubes to double, / Would
give a man excessive trouble.= _Prior._
=Circuitus verborum=--A roundabout story or expression. 25
=Circulus in probando=--Begging the question, or
taking for granted the point at issue (_lit._ a circle
in the proof).
=Circumstances are beyond the control of man,
but his conduct is in his own power.= _Disraeli._
=Circumstances are things round about; we are
in them, not under them.= _Landor._
=Circumstances form the character, but, like
petrifying matters, they harden while they
form.= _Landor._
=Circumstances? I make circumstances.= 30
_Napoleon._
=Cita mors ruit=--Death is a swift rider.
=Citharœdus / Ridetur chorda qui semper obberrat
eadem=--The harper who is always at
fault on the same string is derided. _Hor._
=Cities force growth, and make men talkative
and entertaining, but they make them artificial.=
_Emerson._
=Cities give not the human senses room enough.=
_Emerson._
=Cities have always been the fire-places= (_i.e._, 35
_foci_) =of civilisation, whence light and heat
radiated out into the dark, cold world.= _Theodore
Parker._
=Citius venit periculum cum contemnitur=--When
danger is despised, it arrives the sooner.
_Syr._
=Civil dissension is a viperous worm / That
gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.=
_1 Hen. VI._, iii. 1.
=Civilisation degrades the many to exalt the
few.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Civilisation depends on morality.= _Emerson._
=Civilisation is the result of highly complex= 40
=organisation.= _Emerson._
=Civilisation means the recession of passional
and material life, and the development of
social and moral life.= _Ward Beecher._
=Civilisation tends to corrupt men, as large
towns vitiate the air.= _Amiel._
=Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.=
_M. Wortley Montagu._
=Clamorous labour knocks with its hundred
hands at the golden gate of the morning.=
_Newman Hall._
=Claqueur=--One hired to applaud. _Fr._ 45
=Clarior e tenebris=--The brighter from the obscurity.
_M._
=Clarum et venerabile nomen=--An illustrious and
honoured name.
=Classical quotation is the parole of literary
men all over the world.= _Johnson._
=Classisch ist das Gesunde, romantisch das
Kranke=--The healthy is classical, the unhealthy
is romantic. _Goethe._
=Claude os, aperi oculos=--Keep thy mouth shut, 50
but thy eyes open.
=Claudite jam rivos, pueri; sat prata biberunt=--Close
up the sluices now, lads; the meadows
have drunk enough. _Virg._
=Clausum fregit=--He has broken through the enclosure,
_i.e._ committed a trespass. _L._
=Clay and clay differs in dignity, / Whose dust
is both alike.= _Cymbeline_, iv. 2.
=Cleanliness is near of kin to godliness.= _Pr._
=Clear and bright it should be ever, / Flowing= 55
=like a crystal river; / Bright as light, and
clear as wind.= _Tennyson on the Mind._
=Clear conception leads naturally to clear and
correct expression.= _Boileau._
=Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem
so deep as they are; the turbid look the
most profound.= _Landor._
=Clear your mind of cant.= _Johnson._
=Clemency alone makes us equal with the gods.=
_Claudianus._
=Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in= 60
=the crown of majesty.= _W. Secker._
=Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient
for nothing.= _Amiel._
=Clever people will recognise and tolerate nothing
but cleverness.= _Amiel._
=Climbing is performed in the same posture as
creeping.= _Swift._
=Clocks will go as they are set; but man,
irregular man, is never constant, never certain.=
_Otway._
=Close sits my shirt, but closer sits my skin.= _Pr._ 5
=Clothes are for necessity; warm clothes, for
health; cleanly, for decency; lasting, for
thrift; and rich, for magnificence.= _Fuller._
=Clothes have made men of us; they are threatening
to make clothes-screens of us.= _Carlyle._
=Clothes make the man.= _Dut. Pr._
=Clouds are the veil behind which the face of
day coquettishly hides itself, to enhance its
beauty.= _Jean Paul._
=Coal is a portable climate.= _Emerson._ 10
=Cobblers go to mass and pray that the cows may
die= (_i.e._, for the sake of their hides). _Port. Pr._
=Cobra buena fama, y échate á dormir=--Get a
good name, and go to sleep. _Sp. Pr._
=Cobre gana cobre que no huesos de hombre=--Money
(_lit._ copper) breeds money and not man's
bones. _Sp. Pr._
=Cœlitus mihi vires=--My strength is from heaven.
_M._
=Cœlo tegitur qui non habet urnam=--He who 15
has no urn to hold his bones is covered by the
vault of heaven. _Lucan._
=Cœlum ipsum petimus stultitia=--We assail
heaven itself in our folly. _Hor._
=Cœlum non animum mutant qui trans mare
currunt=--Those who cross the sea change only
the climate, not their character. _Hor._
=Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark;
open the door, and it is off for ever.= _Haliburton._
=Cogenda mens est ut incipiat=--The mind must
be stimulated to make a beginning. _Sen._
=Cogi qui potest nescit mori=--He who can be 20
compelled knows not how to die. _Sen._
=Cogitatio nostra cœli munimenta perrumpit,
nec contenta est, id, quod ostenditur, scire=--Our
thoughts break through the muniments of
heaven, and are not satisfied with knowing what
is offered to sense observation. _Sen._
=Cogito, ergo sum=--I think, therefore I am. _Descartes._
=Cognovit actionem=--He has admitted the action.
_L._
=Coigne of vantage.= _Macb._, i. 6.
=Coin heaven's image / In stamps that are forbid.= 25
_Meas. for Meas._, ii. 4.
=Cold hand, warm heart.= _Pr._
=Cold pudding settles one's love.= _Pr._
=Collision is as necessary to produce virtue in
men, as it is to elicit fire in inanimate matter;
and chivalry is the essence of virtue.= _Lord
John Russell._
=Colonies don't cease to be colonies because
they are independent.= _Disraeli._
=Colour answers to feeling in man; shape, to= 30
=thought; motion, to will.= _John Sterling._
=Colour blindness, which may mistake drab for
scarlet, is better than total blindness, which
sees no distinction of colour at all.= _George
Eliot._
=Colour is the type of love. Hence it is especially
connected with the blossoming of the
earth, and with its fruits; also with the
spring and fall of the leaf, and with the
morning and evening of the day, in order
to show the waiting of love about the birth
and death of man.= _Ruskin._
=Colours are the smiles of Nature ... her
laughs, as in the flowers.= _Leigh Hunt._
=Colubram in sinu fovere=--To cherish a serpent in
one's bosom.
=Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely= 35
=as himself.= _Emerson._
=Combien de héros, glorieux, magnanimes, ont
vécu trop d'un jour=--How many famous and
high-souled heroes have lived a day too long!
_J. B. Rousseau._
=Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm
the world, did not those who have long
practised perfidy grow faithless to each
other.= _Johnson._
=Come, and trip it as you go, / On the light
fantastic toe.= _Milton._
=Come, civil night, / Thou sober-suited matron,
all in black.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 2.
=Come, cordial, not poison.= _Rom. and Jul._, v. 1. 40
=Comedians are not actors; they are only
imitators of actors.= _Zimmermann._
=Come è duro calle=--How hard is the path. _Dante._
=Come, fair Repentance, daughter of the skies! /
Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; /
The weeping messenger of grace from
heaven.= _Browne._
=Come forth into the light of things, / Let
Nature be your teacher.= _Wordsworth._
=Come he slow or come he fast, / It is but= 45
=Death who comes at last.= _Scott._
=Come like shadows, so depart.= _Bowles._
=Come, my best friends, my books, and lead
me on.= _Cowley._
=Come one, come all! this rock shall fly / From
its firm base as soon as I.= _Scott._
=Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est=--A
pleasant companion on the road is as good as a
carriage. _Pub. Syr._
=Come the three corners of the world in arms, /= 50
=And we shall shock them. Nought shall
make us rue, / If England to itself do rest
but true.= _King John_, v. 7.
=Come, we burn daylight.= _Rom. and Jul._, i. 4.
=Come what come may, / Time and the hour
runs through the roughest day.= _Macb._, i. 3.
=Come what sorrow can, / It cannot countervail
th' exchange of joy / That one short
minute gives me in her sight.= _Rom. and
Jul._, ii. 6.
=Comfort is the god of this world, but comfort
it will never obtain by making it an object.=
_Whipple._
=Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth, /= 55
=Where nothing lives but crosses, care, and
grief.= _Rich. II._, ii. 2.
=Coming events cast their shadows before.=
_Campbell._
=Comitas inter gentes=--Courtesy between nations.
=Command large fields, but cultivate small
ones.= _Virg._
=Comme il faut=--As it should be. _Fr._
=Comme je fus=--As I was. _M._ 60
=Comme je trouve=--As I find it. _M._
=Commend a fool for his wit or a knave for his
honesty, and he will receive you into his
bosom.= _Fielding._
=Commend me rather to him who goes wrong
in a way that is his own, than to him
who walks correctly in a way that is not.=
_Goethe._
=Commerce changes the fate and genius of
nations.= _T. Gray._
=Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious,
contingent, transitory, almost as
liable to change as the winds and waves that
waft it to our shores.= _Colton._
=Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the= 5
=signet of all-enslaving power, upon a shining
ore and called it gold.= _Shelley._
=Commerce is a game of skill, which every one
cannot play, which few men can play well.=
_Emerson._
=Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune,
inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She
chooses her residence where she is least
expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance
is, in appearance, most firmly
settled.= _Johnson._
=Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.=
_Emerson._
=Committunt multi eadem diverso crimina fato, /
Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulerit, hic diadema=--How
different the fate of men who commit
the same crimes! For the same villany one
man goes to the gallows, and another is raised to
a throne.
=Common as light is love, / And its familiar= 10
=voice wearies not ever.= _Shelley._
=Common chances common men can bear.= _Coriolanus_,
iv. 1.
=Common distress is a great promoter both of
friendship and speculation.= _Swift._
=Common fame is seldom to blame.= _Pr._
=Commonly they use their feet for defence
whose tongue is their weapon.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Common men are apologies for men; they= 15
=bow the head, excuse themselves with prolix
reasons, and accumulate appearances, because
the substance is not.= _Emerson._
=Common-place people see no difference between
one man and another.= _Pascal._
=Common-sense is calculation applied to life.=
_Amiel._
=Common-sense is the average sensibility and
intelligence of men undisturbed by individual
peculiarities.= _W. R. Alger._
=Common-sense is the genius of humanity.=
_Goethe._
=Common-sense is the measure of the possible;= 20
=it is calculation applied to life.= _Amiel._
=Common souls pay with what they do; nobler
souls, with what they are.= _Emerson._
=Communautés commencent par bâtir leur
cuisine=--Communities begin with building their
kitchen. _Fr. Pr._
=Commune bonum=--A common good.
=Commune naufragium omnibus est consolatio=--A
shipwreck (disaster) that is common is a
consolation to all. _Pr._
=Commune periculum concordiam parit=--A common 25
danger tends to concord. _L._
=Communia esse amicorum inter se omnia=--All
things are common among friends. _Ter._
=Communibus annis=--One year with another.
=Communi consensu=--By common consent.
=Communion is the law of growth, and homes
only thrive when they sustain relations with
each other.= _J. G. Holland._
=Communism is the exploitation of the strong= 30
=by the weak. In communism, inequality
springs from placing mediocrity on a level
with excellence.= _Proudhon._
=Como canta el abad, así responde el monacillo=--As
the abbot sings, the sacristan answers. _Sp.
Pr._
=Compagnon de voyage=--A fellow-traveller. _Pr._
=Company, villanous company, has been the
spoil of me.= 1 _Hen. IV._, iii. 3.
=Comparaison n'est pas raison=--Comparison is
no proof. _Fr. Pr._
=Compare her face with some that I shall= 35
=show, / And I will make thee think thy
swan a crow.= _Rom. and Jul._, i. 2.
=Comparisons are odious.= _Burton._
=Comparisons are odorous.= _Much Ado_, iii. 5.
=Compassion to the offender who has grossly
violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to
the peaceable subject who has observed
them.= _Junius._
=Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.=
_Ward Beecher._
=Compendia dispendia=--Short cuts are roundabout 40
ways.
=Compendiaria res improbitas, virtusque tarda=--Vice
is summary in its procedure, virtue is
slow.
=Compesce mentem=--Restrain thy irritation. _Hor._
=Complaining never so loud, and with never so
much reason, is of no use.= _Emerson._
=Complaining profits little; stating of the truth
may profit.= _Carlyle._
=Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives,= 45
=and the sincerest part of our devotion.=
_Swift._
=Compliments are only lies in court clothes.=
_J. Sterling._
=Componitur orbis / Regis ad exemplum; nec
sic inflectere sensus / Humanos edicta
valent, quam vita regentis=--Manners are
fashioned after the example of the king, and
edicts have less effect on them than the life of
the ruler. _Claud._
=Compose thy mind, and prepare thy soul calmly
to obey; such offering will be more acceptable
to God than every other sacrifice.=
_Metastasio._
=Compositum miraculi causa=--A story trumped
up to astonish. _Tac._
=Compos mentis=--Of a sound mind. 50
=Compound for sins they are inclined to / By
damning those they have no mind to.= _Butler._
=Comprendre c'est pardonner=--To understand is
to pardon. _Mad. de Staël._
=Compte rendu=--Report, return. _Fr._
=Con agua pasada no muele molino=--The mill
grinds no corn with water that has passed. _Sp.
Pr._
=Con amore=--With love; earnestly. _It._
=Con arte e con inganno si vive mezzo l'anno;
con inganno si vive l'altra parte=--People live
with art and deception one half the year, and
with deception and art the other half. _It. Pr._
=Conceal not the meanness of thy family, nor
think it disgraceful to be descended from
peasants; for when it is seen thou art not
thyself ashamed, no one will endeavour to
make thee so.= _Cervantes._
=Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.=
_Ham._, iii. 4.
=Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop
him up.= _Ruskin._
=Concentration is the secret of strength in
politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the
management of human affairs.= _Emerson._
=Concio ad clerum=--An address to the clergy. 5
=Concordia discors=--A jarring or discordant concord.
_Ovid._
=Concordia res parvæ crescunt, discordia maximæ
dilabuntur=--With concord small things increase,
with discord the greatest go to ruin. _Sall._
=Concours=--A competition. _Fr._
=Condemnable idolatry is insincere idolatry--a
human soul clinging spasmodically to an Ark
of the Covenant, which it half feels is now a
phantasm.= _Carlyle._
=Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! /= 10
=Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done.=
_Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Condense some daily experience into a glowing
symbol, and an audience is electrified.=
_Emerson._
=Con dineros no te conocerás, sin dineros no te
conocerán=--With money you would not know
yourself; without it, no one would know you.
_Sp. Pr._
=Condition, circumstance, is not the thing, /
Bliss is the same in subject or in king.= _Pope._
=Conditions are pleasant or grievous to us
according to our sensibilities.= _Lew. Wallace._
=Con el Rey y con la Inquisicion, chitos=--With 15
the King and the Inquisition, hush! _Sp. Pr._
=Confessed faults are half mended.= _Sc. Pr._
=Confess yourself to Heaven; / Repent what's
past; avoid what is to come; / And do not
spread the compost on the weeds, / To make
them ranker.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will
show you are wise to-day.= _Pr._
=Confidence imparts a wondrous inspiration to
its possessor. It bears him on in security,
either to meet no danger or to find matter
of glorious trial.= _Milton._
=Confidence in another man's virtue is no slight= 20
=evidence of a man's own.= _Montaigne._
=Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of
magnanimity.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an
aged bosom.= _Chatham._
=Confidence is a thing not to be produced by
compulsion. Men cannot be forced into
trust.= _D. Webster._
=Confido, conquiesco=--I trust, and am at rest. _M._
=Confine your tongue, lest it confine you.= _Pr._ 25
=Confrère=--A brother monk or associate. _Fr._
=Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. /
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope /
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole
thence / The life o' the building.= _Macb._, ii. 1.
=Confusion worse confounded.= _Milton._
=Congé d'élire=--A leave to elect. _Fr._
=Con poco cervello si governa il mondo=--The 30
world is governed with small wit. _It. Pr._
=Conquer we shall, but we must first contend; /
'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the
end.= _Herrick._
=Conscia mens recti famæ mendacia risit=--The
mind conscious of integrity ever scorns the lies
of rumour. _Ovid._
=Conscience does make cowards of us all; / And
thus the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied
o'er with the pale cast of thought; / And
enterprises of great pith and moment, / With
this regard, their currents turn awry, / And
lose the name of action.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=Conscience is but a word that cowards use, /
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe; /
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords
our law.= _Rich. III._, v. 3.
=Conscience is our magnetic needle; / reason,= 35
=our chart.= _Joseph Cook._
=Conscience is the chamber of justice.= _Origen._
=Conscience is the compass of the unknown.=
_Joseph Cook._
=Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.= _Johnson._
=Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions,
of the body.= _Rousseau._
=Conscience is wiser than science.= _Lavater._ 40
=Conscientia mille testes=--Conscience is equal to
a thousand witnesses. _Pr._
=Con scienza=--With a knowledge of the subject. _It._
=Consecrated is the spot which a good man has
trodden.= _Goethe._
=Consecration is going out into the world where
God Almighty is, and using every power for
His glory.= _Ward Beecher._
=Conseil d'état=--Council of state. 45
=Consensus facit legem=--Consent makes the law.
_L._
=Consequitur quodcunque petit=--He attains to
whatever he aims at. _M._
=Conservatism is the pause on the last movement.=
_Emerson._
=Consideration, like an angel, came, / And
whipp'd th' offending Adam out of him, /
Leaving his body as a paradise, / To envelop
and contain celestial spirits.= _Henry
V._, i. 1.
=Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow;= 50
=they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet
I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one of these.=
_Jesus._
=Consilio et animis=--By counsel and courage. _M._
=Conspicuous by its absence.= _Lord John Russell._
=Constans et fidelitate=--Constant and with faithfulness.
_M._
=Constant attention wears the active mind, /
Blots out her powers, and leaves a blank
behind.= _Churchill._
=Constantia et virtute=--By constancy and virtue. 55
_M._
=Constantly choose rather to want less than to
have more.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Constant occupation prevents temptation.= _It.
Pr._
=Constant thought will overflow in words unconsciously.=
_Byron._
=Consuetudinis magna vis est=--The force of habit
is great. _Cic._
=Consuetudo est altera lex=--Custom is a second 60
law. _L._
=Consuetudo est secunda natura=--Custom is a
second nature. _St. Aug._
=Consuetudo pro lege servatur=--Custom is observed
as law. _L._
=Consult duty, not events.= _Landor._
=Contaminate our fingers with base bribes?...
I'd rather be a dog and bay the moon than
such a Roman.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.
=Contas na maõ, e o demonio no coraçaõ=--Rosary 5
in the hand, and the devil in the heart. _Port. Pr._
=Contemni est gravius stultitiæ quam percuti=--To
be despised is more galling to a foolish man
than to be whipped.
=Contemporaries appreciate the man rather
than his merit; posterity will regard the
merit rather than the man.= _Colton._
=Contempt is a dangerous element to sport in; a
deadly one, if we habitually live in it.= _Carlyle._
=Contempt is a kind of gangrene, which, if it
seizes one part of a character, corrupts all
the rest by degrees.= _Johnson._
=Contempt is the only way to triumph over= 10
=calumny.= _Mde. de Maintenon._
=Contented wi' little, an' cantie (cheerily happy)
wi' mair.= _Burns._
=Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may
view, / The learn'd reflect on what before
they knew.= _Pope._
=Contention is a hydra's head; the more they
strive, the more they may.= _Burton._
=Contention, like a horse / Full of high feeding,
madly hath broken loose, / And bears
all down before him.= 2 _Hen. IV._, i. 1.
=Contentions fierce, / Ardent, and dire, spring= 15
=from no petty cause.= _Scott._
=Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling
victory.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Content is better than riches.= _Pr._
=Content is the true philosopher's stone.= _Pr._
=Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant,
has great delight and little trouble.= _Epictetus._
=Contentment consisteth not in adding more= 20
=fuel, but in taking away some fire.= _Fuller._
=Contentment is natural wealth.= _Socrates._
=Contentment will make a cottage look as fair
as a palace.= _W. Secker._
=Contentment without money is the philosopher's
stone.= _Lichtwer._
=Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.=
_Heywood._
=Content thyself to be obscurely good; / When= 25
=vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, /
The post of honour is a private station.=
_Addison._
=Content with poverty, my soul I arm; / And
virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.=
_Dryden after Hor._
=Contesa vecchia tosto si fa nuova=--An old feud
is easily renewed. _It. Pr._
=Conticuere omnes, intentique ora tenebant=--All
were at once silent and listened intent. _Virg._
=Continued eloquence wearies.= _Pascal._
=Contra bonos mores=--Against good morals. 30
=Contra malum mortis, non est medicamen in
hortis=--Against the evil of death there is no
remedy in the garden.
=Contraria contrariis curantur=--Contraries are
cured by contraries.
=Contrast increases the splendour of beauty,
but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its
attractiveness, but diminishes its power.=
_Ruskin._
=Contrat social=--The social compact, specially
Rousseau's theory thereof.
=Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis; /= 35
=Sermo datur cunctis, animi sapientia paucis=--Don't
contend with words against wordy
people; speech is given to all, wisdom to few.
_Cato._
=Contredire, c'est quelquefois frapper à une
porte, pour savoir s'il y a quelqu'un dans
la maison=--To contradict sometimes means to
knock at the door in order to know whether
there is any one in the house. _Fr. Pr._
=Contre fortune bon cœur=--Against change of
fortune set a bold heart. _Fr. Pr._
=Contre les rebelles, c'est cruauté que d'estre
humain et humanité d'estre cruel=--Against
rebels it is cruelty to be humane, and humanity
to be cruel. _Corneille Muis._
=Contre-temps=--A mischance. _Fr._
=Contrivances of the time / For sowing broadcast= 40
=the seeds of crime.= _Longfellow._
=Contumeliam si dicis, audies=--If you utter abuse,
you must expect to receive it. _Plaut._
=Conversation enriches the understanding; but
solitude is the school of genius.= _Gibbon._
=Conversation in society is found to be on a
platform so low as to exclude science, the
saint, and the poet.= _Emerson._
=Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a
surrender to persons.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Conversation is an art in which a man has all= 45
=mankind for competitors.= _Emerson._
=Conversation is a traffic; and if you enter into
it without some stock of knowledge to balance
the account perpetually, the trade drops
at once.= _Sterne._
=Conversation will not corrupt us if we come to
the assembly in our own garb and speech,
and with the energy of health to select what
is ours and reject what is not.= _Emerson._
=Converse with a mind that is grandly simple,
and literature looks like word-catching.=
_Emerson._
=Conversion--a grand epoch for a man; properly
the one epoch; the turning-point which
guides upwards, or guides downwards, him
and his activities for evermore.= _Carlyle._
=Conversion is the awakening of a soul to see= 50
=into the awful= _truth_ =of things; to see that
Time and its shows all rest on Eternity,
and this poor earth of ours is the threshold
either of heaven or hell.= _Carlyle._
=Convey a libel in a frown, / And wink a reputation
down.= _Swift._
=Convey thy love to thy friend as an arrow to
the mark; not as a ball against the wall, to
rebound back again.= _Quarles._
=Conviction, never so excellent, is worthless
till it convert itself into conduct.= _Carlyle._
=Copia verborum=--Superabundance of words.
=Coraçaõ determinado, naõ soffre conselho=--He 55
brooks no advice whose mind is made up. _Port.
Pr._
=Coram domino rege=--Before our lord the king.
=Coram nobis=--Before the court.
=Coram non judice=--Before one who is not a judge.
=Corbies (crows) and clergy are kittle shot (hard
to hit).= _Sc. Pr._
=Corbies dinna pick oot corbies' een=, _i.e._, harm
each other. _Sc. Pr._
=Cordon bleu=--A skilful cook (_lit._ a blue ribbon).
_Fr._
=Cordon sanitaire=--A guard to prevent a disease
spreading. _Fr._
=Corn is gleaned with wind, and the soul with= 5
=chastening.= _Geo. Herbert._
=Cor nobile, cor immobile=--A noble heart is an
immovable heart.
=Coronat virtus cultores suos=--Virtue crowns her
votaries. _M._
=Corpo ben feito naõ ha mester capa=--A body
that is well made needs no cloak. _Port. Pr._
=Corpora lente augescunt, cito extinguuntur=--All
bodies are slow in growth, rapid in decay.
_Tac._
=Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be= 10
=outlawed nor excommunicated, for they have
no souls.= _Coke._
=Corporations have neither bodies to be punished
nor souls to be damned.= _Thurlow._
=Corporis et fortunæ bonorum, ut initium, finis
est. Omnia orta occidunt, et aucta senescunt=--The
blessings of health and fortune, as
they have a beginning, must also have an end.
Everything rises but to fall, and grows but to
decay. _Sall._
=Corpo satollo non crede all' affamato=--A satisfied
appetite does not believe in hunger. _It. Pr._
=Corps d'armée=--A military force. _Fr._
=Corps diplomatique=--The diplomatic body. _Fr._ 15
=Corpus Christi=--Festival in honour of the Eucharist
or body of Christ.
=Corpus delicti=--The body of the offence. _L._
=Corpus sine pectore=--A body without a soul.
_Hor._
=Correct counting keeps good friends.= _Gael. Pr._
=Correction does much, but encouragement does= 20
=more.= _Goethe._
=Correction is good, administered in time.= _Dan.
Pr._
=Corre lontano chi non torna mai=--He runs a
long way who never turns. _It. Pr._
=Corrigenda=--Corrections to be made.
=Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.=
_Garrick._
=Corruption is like a ball of snow, when once= 25
=set a rolling it must increase.= _Colton._
=Corruptions can only be expiated by the blood
of the just ascending to heaven by the steps
of the scaffold.= _De Tocqueville._
=Corruptio optimi pessima=--The corruption of the
best is the worst. _Anon._
=Corruptissima in republica plurimæ leges=--In
a state in which corruption abounds laws are
very numerous. _Tac._
=Cor unum, via una=--One heart, one way. _M._
=Corvées=--Forced labour, formerly exacted of the 30
peasantry in France. _Fr._
=Cosa ben fatta è fatta due volte=--A thing well
done is twice done. _It. Pr._
=Cosa fatta, capo ha=--A thing which is done has
a head, _i.e._, it is never done till completed. _It.
Pr._
=Cosa mala nunca muere=--A bad thing never dies.
_Sp. Pr._
=Così fan tutti=--So do they all. _It._
=Cos ingeniorum=--A whetstone to their wit. 35
=Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But
not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; /
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.=
_Ham._, i. 3.
=Costumbre hace ley=--Custom becomes law. _Sp.
Pr._
=Could everything be done twice, it would be
done better.= _Ger. Pr._
=Could great men thunder / As Jove himself
does, Jove would ne'er be quiet; / For every
pelting, petty officer / Would use his heaven
for thunder; nothing but thunder.= _Meas. for
Meas._, ii. 2.
=Could we forbear dispute and practise love, /= 40
=We should agree as angels do above.=
_Waller._
=Could you see every man's career in life, you
would find a woman clogging him ... or
cheering him and goading him.= _Thackeray._
=Couleur de rose=--A flattering representation.
_Fr._
=Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it
once winged.= _Ouida._
=Count the world not an inn but an hospital;
and a place not to live in, but to die in.=
_Colton._
=Countries are well cultivated, not as they= 45
=are fertile, but as they are free.= _Montesquieu._
=Coup de grace=--The finishing stroke. _Fr._
=Coup de main=--A bold effort; a surprise.
=Coup de pied=--A kick. _Fr._
=Coup de soleil=--Stroke of the sun. _Fr._
=Coup d'essai=--First attempt. _Fr._ 50
=Coup d'état=--A sudden stroke of policy. _Fr._
=Coup de théâtre=--Theatrical effect. _Fr._
=Coup d'œil=--A glance of the eye; a prospect.
=Courage against misfortune, and reason
against passion.= _Pr._
=Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal= 55
=of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy
cannot imitate.= _Goethe._
=Courage consists in equality to the problem
before us.= _Emerson._
=Courage consists not in blindly overlooking
danger, but in meeting it with the eyes
open.= _Jean Paul._
=Courage consists not in hazarding without
fear, but being resolutely minded in a just
cause.= _Plutarch._
=Courage! even sorrows, when once they are
vanished, quicken the soul, as rain the valley.=
_Salis._
=Courage is generosity of the highest order,= 60
=for the brave are prodigal of the most precious
things.= _Colton._
=Courage is on all hands considered an essential
of high character.= _Froude._
=Courage is the wisdom of manhood; foolhardiness,
the folly of youth.= _Pr._
=Courage mounteth with occasion.= _King John_,
ii. 1.
=Courage never to submit or yield.= _Milton._
=Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs= 65
=of genius.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of
woman.= _Emerson._
=Courage, or the degree of life, is as the degree
of circulation of the blood in the arteries.=
_Emerson._
=Courage sans peur=--Courage without fear. _Fr._
=Courage, sir, / That makes man or woman
look their goodliest.= _Tennyson._
=Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly
the mark of a gentleman or a lady;
but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive.=
_Ruskin._
=Courtesy costs nothing.= _Pr._ 5
=Courtesy is cumbersome to him that kens it
not.= _Sc. Pr._
=Courtesy is often sooner found in lowly sheds
with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls
and courts of princes, where it first was
named.= _Milton._
=Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you
come in her presence.= _Much Ado_, i. 1.
=Courtesy never broke one's crown.= _Gael.
Pr._
=Courtesy of temper, when it is used to veil= 10
=churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle
around the breast of a base clown.= _Scott._
=Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions,
not so pointed as to alarm, nor so
vague as not to be understood.= _Sterne._
=Coûte qu'il coûte=--Let it cost what it may.
_Fr._
=Cover yourself with honey and the flies will
fasten on you.= _Pr._
=Covetous men need money least, yet most
affect it; and prodigals, who need it most,
do least regard it.= _Theod. Parker._
=Covetousness bursts the bag.= _Pr._ 15
=Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not
confined to money, but greedy of honour and
feeding on selfishness.= _Chamfort._
=Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude
and anxiety.= _B. Franklin._
=Covetousness is rich, while modesty goes
barefoot.= _Phædrus._
=Covetousness, like jealousy, when it has once
taken root, never leaves a man but with his
life.= _T. Hughes._
=Covetousness often starves other vices.= _Sc._ 20
_Pr._
=Covetousness swells the principal to no purpose,
and lessens the use to all purposes.=
_Jeremy Taylor._
=Covetousness, which is idolatry.= _St. Paul._
=Coward dogs / Most spend their mouths when
what they seem to threaten / Runs far before
them.= _Henry V._, ii. 4.
=Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.=
_Epictetus._
=Cowards are cruel, but the brave / Love mercy,= 25
=and delight to save.= _Gay._
=Cowards die many times before their deaths; /
The valiant never taste of death but once. /
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should
fear; / Seeing that death, a necessary end, /
Will come when it will come.= _Jul. Cæsar_,
ii. 2.
=Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome
by those who nobly dare.= _Queen Elizabeth._
=Cowards father cowards, and base things sire
base; / Nature hath meal and bran, contempt
and grace.= _Cymb._, iv. 2.
=Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod.=
_G. Herbert._
=Crabbed age and youth / Cannot live together.= 30
_Shakespeare._
=Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice
in the character.= _Sanial Dubay._
=Craft maun hae claes (clothes), but truth gaes
naked.= _Sc. Pr._
=Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire
them; and wise men use them; for they
teach not their own use; but that is wisdom
without them, and above them won by observation.=
_Bacon._
=Craignez honte=--Fear shame. _M._
=Craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux=--Fear 35
the worst from an enraged author. _Fr._
=Crambe repetita=--Cabbage repeated (kills). _Juv._
=Cras credemus, hodie nihil=--To-morrow we will
believe, but not to-day. _Pr._
=Crea el cuervo, y sacarte ha los ojos=--Breed
up a crow and he will peck out your eyes. _Sp.
Pr._
=Creaking waggons are long in passing.= _Fris.
Pr._
=Created half to rise and half to fall, / Great= 40
=lord of all things, yet a prey to all; / Sole
judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; / The
glory, jest, and riddle of the world.= _Pope._
=Creation is great, and cannot be understood.=
_Carlyle._
=Creation lies before us like a glorious rainbow;
but the sun that made it lies behind us, hidden
from us.= _Jean Paul._
=Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine.=
_Goldsmith._
=Creation sleeps! 'Tis as the general pulse /
Of life stood still, and Nature made a
pause, / An awful pause, prophetic of her
end.= _Young._
=Credat Judæus Apella=--Apella, the Jew, may 45
believe that; I cannot. _Hor._
=Crede quod est quod vis=--Believe that that is
which you wish to be. _Ovid._
=Crede quod habes, et habes=--Believe that you
have it, and you have it.
=Credit keeps the crown o' the causey=, _i.e._, is
not afraid to show its face. _Sc. Pr._
=Creditors have better memories than debtors.=
_Pr._
=Credo, quia absurdum=--I believe it because it is 50
absurd. _Tert._
=Credula res amor est=--Love is a credulous affection.
_Ovid._
=Credula vitam / Spes fovet, et fore cras semper
ait melius=--Credulous hope cherishes life, and
ever whispers to us that to-morrow will be better.
_Tibull._
=Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable
from eminently truthful characters.=
_Tuckerman._
=Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced
virtue.= _Johnson._
=Creep before you gang (walk).= _Sc. Pr._ 55
=Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam, / Majorumque
fames=--Care accompanies increasing
wealth, and a craving for still greater riches.
_Hor._
=Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia
crescit=--The love of money increases as wealth
increases. _Juv._
=Crescit occulto velut arbor ævo=--It grows as a
tree with a hidden life. _Hor._
=Crescit sub pondere virtus=--Virtue thrives under
oppression. _M._
=Cressa ne careat pulchra dies nota=--Let not a
day so fair be without its white mark. _Hor._
=Creta an carbone notandi?=--Are they to be
marked with chalk or charcoal? _Hor._
=Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.= 5
=Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected,
ripens within the flower of the pleasure that
concealed it.= _Emerson._
=Crime cannot be hindered by punishment, but
only by letting no man grow up a criminal.=
_Ruskin._
=Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.= _Racine._
=Crimen læsæ majestatis=--Crime of high treason.
=Crimen quos inquinat, æquat=--Crime puts those
on an equal footing whom it defiles.
=Crimes generally punish themselves.= _Goldsmith._ 10
=Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices
almost always too little.= _Hare._
=Crimina qui cernunt aliorum, non sua cernunt, /
Hi sapiunt aliis, desipiuntque sibi=--Those who
see the faults of others, but not their own, are
wise for others and fools for themselves. _Pr._
=Crimine ab uno / Disce omnes=--From the base
character of one learn what they all are. _Virg._
=Cripples are aye better schemers than walkers.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Criticism is a disinterested endeavour to learn= 15
=and propagate the best that is known and
thought in the world.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring,
as it does, more health than wit,
more labour than capacity, more practice
than genius.= _La Bruyère._
=Criticism is like champagne, nothing more
execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if
good.= _Colton._
=Criticism is not construction; it is observation.=
_G. W. Curtis._
=Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy.
The life of the imagination, as of the
body, disappears when we pursue it.= _Willmott._
=Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars= 20
=and blossoms together.= _Jean Paul._
=Criticism should be written for the public, not
the artist.= _Wm. Winter._
=Critics all are ready made.= _Byron._
=Critics are men who have failed in literature
and art.= _Disraeli._
=Critics are sentinels in the grand army of
letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers
and reviews to challenge every new
author.= _Longfellow._
=Critics must excuse me if I compare them to= 25
=certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing
vines, originally taught the great advantage
of pruning them.= _Shenstone._
=Crosses are ladders that lead to heaven.=
_Pr._
=Crows do not pick out crows' eyes.= _Pr._
=Cruci dum spiro fido=--Whilst I breathe I trust in
the cross. _M._
=Crudelem medicum intemperans æger facit=--A
disorderly patient makes a harsh physician.
_Pub. Syr._
=Crudelis ubique / Luctus, ubique pavor, et= 30
=plurima mortis imago=--Everywhere is heart-rending
wail, everywhere consternation, and
death in a thousand shapes. _Virg._
=Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.=
_Thomson._
=Cruel men are the greatest lovers of mercy;
avaricious, of generosity; proud, of humility,--in
others.= _Colton._
=Cruelty in war buyeth conquest at the dearest
price.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it
is the cure of sufferings.= _Landor._
=Crux criticorum=--The puzzle of critics. 35
=Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas=--It
is torture to fear what you cannot overcome.
_Ausonius._
=Crux medicorum=--The puzzle of physicians.
=Cry "Havock," and let slip the dogs of war.=
_Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.
=Cucullus non facit monachum=--The cowl does
not make the monk. _Pr._
=Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your= 40
=dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.=
_Ham._, v. 1.
=Cui bono?=--Whom does it benefit?
=Cuidar muitas cousas, fazer huma=--Think of
many things, do only one. _Port. Pr._
=Cuidar naõ he saber=--Thinking is not knowing.
_Port. Pr._
=Cui lecta potenter erit res / Nec facundia
deseret hunc nec lucidus ordo=--He who has
chosen a theme suited to his powers will never
be at a loss for felicitous language or lucid arrangement.
_Hor._
=Cuilibet in arte sua perito credendum est=--Every 45
man is to be trusted in his own art. _Pr._
=Cui licitus est finis, etiam licent media=--Where
the end is lawful the means are also lawful. _A
Jesuit maxim._
=Cui malo?=--Whom does it harm?
=Cui mens divinior atque os / Magna sonaturum
des nominis hujus honorem=--To him whose
soul is more than ordinarily divine, and who
has the gift of uttering lofty thoughts, you may
justly concede the honourable title of poet.
_Hor._
=Cui non conveniat sua res, ut calceus olim, /
Si pede major erit, subvertet, si minor, uret=--As
a shoe, when too large, is apt to trip
one, and when too small, to pinch the feet; so
is it with him whose fortune does not suit him.
_Hor._
=Cui placet alterius, sua nimirum est odio sors=--When 50
a man envies another's lot, it is
natural he should be discontented with his
own. _Hor._
=Cui placet, obliviscitur; cui dolet, meminit=--Acts
of kindness are soon forgotten, but the
memory of an offence remains. _Pr._
=Cui prodest scelus, is fecit=--He has committed
the crime who profits by it. _Sen._
=Cuique suum=--His own to every one. _Pr._
=Cui serpe mozzica, lucenta teme=--Whom a serpent
has bitten fears a lizard. _It. Pr._
=Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad cœlum=--He 55
who owns the soil owns everything above it to
the very sky. _L._
=Cujus rei libet simulator atque dissimulator=--A
finished pretender and dissembler. _Sall._
=Cujusvis hominis est errare: nullius nisi insipientis
in errore perseverare=--Every one is
liable to err; none but a fool will persevere in
error. _Cic._
=Cujus vita fulgor, ejus verba tonitrua=--His
words are thunderbolts whose life is as lightning.
_Mediæval Pr._
=Cujus vulturis hoc erit cadaver?=--To what
harpy's will shall this carcass fall? _Mart._
=Cul de sac=--A street, a lane or passage, that has
no outlet. _Fr._
=Culpam pœna premit comes=--Punishment follows 5
hard upon crime as an attendant. _Hor._
=Cultivated labour drives out brute labour.=
_Emerson._
=Cultivate not only the cornfields of your mind,
but the pleasure-grounds also.= _Whately._
=Cultivation is as necessary to the mind as food
to the body.= _Cic._
=Culture, aiming at the perfection of the man as
the end, degrades everything else, as health
and bodily life, into means.= _Emerson._
=Culture enables us to express ourselves.= 10
_Hamerton._
=Culture implies all which gives the mind possession
of its own powers.= _Emerson._
=Culture inverts the vulgar views of nature,
and brings the mind to call that apparent
which it uses to call real, and that real which
it uses to call visionary.= _Emerson._
=Culture is a study of perfection.= _Matthew
Arnold._
=Culture is the passion for sweetness and light,
and (what is more) the passion for making
them prevail.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Culture (is the process by which a man) becomes= 15
=all that he was created capable of
being, resisting all impediments, casting off
all foreign, especially all noxious, adhesions,
and showing himself at length in his own
shape and stature, be these what they may.=
_Carlyle._
=Culture merely for culture's sake can never
be anything but a sapless root, capable of
producing at best a shrivelled branch.= _J.
W. Cross._
=Culture must not omit the arming of the man.=
_Emerson._
=Culture of the thinking, the dispositions= (_Gesinnungen_),
=and the morals is the only education
that deserves the name, not mere
instruction.= _Herder._
=Cum grano salis=--With a grain of salt, _i.e._, with
some allowance.
=Cum privilegio=--With privilege. 20
=Cunctando restituit rem=--He restored the cause
(of Rome) by delay. _Said of Fabius, surnamed
therefore Cunctator._
=Cuncti adsint, meritæque expectent præmia
palmæ=--Let all attend, and expect the rewards
due to well-earned laurels. _Virg._
=Cunctis servatorem liberatoremque acclamantibus=--All
hailing him as saviour and deliverer.
=Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects,
and discovering other people's weaknesses.=
_Hazlitt._
=Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.= _W. G._ 25
_Alger._
=Cunning is the intensest rendering of vulgarity,
absolute and utter.= _Ruskin._
=Cunning is to wisdom as an ape to a man.=
_William Penn._
=Cunning leads to knavery; 'tis but a step, and
that a very slippery, from the one to the
other. Lying only makes the difference; add
that to cunning, and it is knavery.= _La
Bruyère._
=Cunning signifies especially a habit or gift of
over-reaching, accompanied with enjoyment
and a sense of superiority.= _Ruskin._
=Cunning surpasses strength.= _Ger. Pr._ 30
=Cupias non placuisse nimis=--Do not aim at too
much popularity. _Mart._
=Cupid is a knavish lad, / Thus to make poor
females mad.= _Mid. N. Dream_, iii. 2.
=Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's
plumes.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Cupido dominandi cunctis affectibus flagrantior
est=--The desire of rule is the most ardent of all
the affections of the mind. _Tac._
=Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules'= 35
=club.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 2.
=Curæ leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent=--Light
troubles are loud-voiced, deeper ones are dumb.
_Sen._
=Cura facit canos=--Care brings grey hairs. _Pr._
=Cura pii dis sunt, et qui coluere, coluntur=--The
pious-hearted are cared for by the gods, and they
who reverence them are reverenced. _Ovid._
=Cura ut valeas=--Take care that you keep well.
_Cic._
=Curiosa felicitas=--Studied felicity of thought or 40
of style.
=Curiosis fabricavit inferos=--He fashioned hell
for the inquisitive. _St. Augustine._
=Curiosity is a desire to know why and how;
such as is in no living creature but man.=
_Hobbes._
=Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.=
_Emerson._
=Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.=
_Victor Hugo._
=Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.= 45
=Knock, therefore, at the door before you
enter on your neighbour's privacy; and remember
that there is no difference between
entering into his house and looking into it.=
_Jeremy Taylor._
=Curiosity is the kernel of the forbidden fruit.=
_Fuller._
=Curiosus nemo est, quin idem sit malevolus=--Nobody
is inquisitive about you who does not
also bear you ill-will. _Plaut._
=Curious to think how, for every man, any the
truest fact is modelled by the nature of the
man.= _Carlyle._
=Currente calamo=--With a running pen.
=Cursed be the social ties that warp us from= 50
=the living truth.= _Tennyson._
=Curse on all laws but those which love has
made.= _Pope._
=Curses always recoil on the head of him who
imprecates them. If you put a chain around
the neck of a slave, the other end fastens
itself around your own.= _Emerson._
=Curses are like chickens; they always return
home.= _Pr._
=Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour,
breath, / Which the poor heart would fain
deny, but dare not.= _Macb._, v. 3.
=Curst be the man, the poorest wretch in life, /
The crouching vassal to the tyrant wife, / Who
has no will but by her high permission; / Who
has not sixpence but in her possession; /
Who must to her his dear friend's secret tell; /
Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than
hell. / Were such the wife had fallen to my
part, / I'd break her spirit or I'd break her
heart.= _Burns._
=Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, /
That tends to make one worthy man my
foe, / Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, /
Or from the soft-ey'd virgin steal a tear.=
_Pope._
=Curs'd merchandise, where life is sold, / And
avarice consents to starve for gold.= _Rowe
from Lucan._
=Custom does often reason overrule, / And only
serves for reason to the fool.= _Rochester._
=Custom doth make dotards of us all.= _Carlyle._ 5
=Custom forms us all; / Our thoughts, our
morals, our most fixed belief, / Are consequences
of our place of birth.= _A. Hill._
=Custom is the law of one set of fools, and
fashion of another; but the two often clash,
for precedent is the legislator of the one and
novelty of the other.= _Colton._
=Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol
of fools.= _Pr._
=Custom may lead a man into many errors, but
it justifies none.= _Fielding._
=Custom reconciles to everything.= _Burke._ 10
=Custos morum=--The guardian of morality.
=Custos regni=--The guardian of the realm.
=Custos rotulorum=--The keeper of the rolls.
=Cutis vulpina consuenda est cum cute leonis=--The
fox's skin must be sewed to that of the lion.
_L. Pr._
=Cut men's throats with whisperings.= _Ben_ 15
_Jonson._
=Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, /
Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd; / No
reckoning made, but sent to my account /
With all my imperfections on my head.=
_Ham._, i. 5.
=Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus,
with thy hand.= _Buddha._
=Cutting honest throats by whispers.= _Scott._
=Cut your coat according to your cloth.= _Pr._