Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

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.