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

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.