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

Cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper—(Youth), 25 pliable as wax to vice, obstinate under reproof. Hor.

Cernit omnia Deus vindex—God as avenger sees all things. M.

Certa amittimus dum incerta petimus—We lose things certain in pursuing things uncertain. Plaut.

Certain defects are necessary to the existence of the individual. It would be painful to us if our old friends laid aside certain peculiarities. Goethe.

Certain it is that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as that of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. Addison.

Certe ignoratio futurorum malorum utilius est 30 quam scientia—It is more advantageous not to know than to know the evils that are coming upon us. Cic.

Certiorari—To order the record from an inferior to a superior court. L.

Certum est quia impossibile est—I am sure of it because it is impossible. Tert.

Certum pete finem—Aim at a definite end. M.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away. Byron.