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

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.