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.