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

Citharœdus / Ridetur chorda qui semper obberrat eadem—The harper who is always at fault on the same string is derided. Hor.

Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Emerson.

Cities give not the human senses room enough. Emerson.

Cities have always been the fire-places (i.e., 35 foci) of civilisation, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark, cold world. Theodore Parker.

Citius venit periculum cum contemnitur—When danger is despised, it arrives the sooner. Syr.

Civil dissension is a viperous worm / That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. 1 Hen. VI., iii. 1.

Civilisation degrades the many to exalt the few. A. B. Alcott.

Civilisation depends on morality. Emerson.

Civilisation is the result of highly complex 40 organisation. Emerson.

Civilisation means the recession of passional and material life, and the development of social and moral life. Ward Beecher.