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

Costumbre hace ley—Custom becomes law. Sp. Pr.

Could everything be done twice, it would be done better. Ger. Pr.

Could great men thunder / As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet; / For every pelting, petty officer / Would use his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder. Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

Could we forbear dispute and practise love, / 40 We should agree as angels do above. Waller.

Could you see every man's career in life, you would find a woman clogging him ... or cheering him and goading him. Thackeray.

Couleur de rose—A flattering representation. Fr.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged. Ouida.

Count the world not an inn but an hospital; and a place not to live in, but to die in. Colton.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they 45 are fertile, but as they are free. Montesquieu.

Coup de grace—The finishing stroke. Fr.