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

Concio ad clerum—An address to the clergy. 5

Concordia discors—A jarring or discordant concord. Ovid.

Concordia res parvæ crescunt, discordia maximæ dilabuntur—With concord small things increase, with discord the greatest go to ruin. Sall.

Concours—A competition. Fr.

Condemnable idolatry is insincere idolatry—a human soul clinging spasmodically to an Ark of the Covenant, which it half feels is now a phantasm. Carlyle.

Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! / 10 Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done. Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified. Emerson.

Con dineros no te conocerás, sin dineros no te conocerán—With money you would not know yourself; without it, no one would know you. Sp. Pr.

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing, / Bliss is the same in subject or in king. Pope.

Conditions are pleasant or grievous to us according to our sensibilities. Lew. Wallace.