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

Cogito, ergo sum—I think, therefore I am. Descartes.

Cognovit actionem—He has admitted the action. L.

Coigne of vantage. Macb., i. 6.

Coin heaven's image / In stamps that are forbid. 25 Meas. for Meas., ii. 4.

Cold hand, warm heart. Pr.

Cold pudding settles one's love. Pr.

Collision is as necessary to produce virtue in men, as it is to elicit fire in inanimate matter; and chivalry is the essence of virtue. Lord John Russell.

Colonies don't cease to be colonies because they are independent. Disraeli.

Colour answers to feeling in man; shape, to 30 thought; motion, to will. John Sterling.

Colour blindness, which may mistake drab for scarlet, is better than total blindness, which sees no distinction of colour at all. George Eliot.