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

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.