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

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character. Sanial Dubay.

Craft maun hae claes (clothes), but truth gaes naked. Sc. Pr.

Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is wisdom without them, and above them won by observation. Bacon.

Craignez honte—Fear shame. M.

Craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux—Fear 35 the worst from an enraged author. Fr.

Crambe repetita—Cabbage repeated (kills). Juv.

Cras credemus, hodie nihil—To-morrow we will believe, but not to-day. Pr.

Crea el cuervo, y sacarte ha los ojos—Breed up a crow and he will peck out your eyes. Sp. Pr.

Creaking waggons are long in passing. Fris. Pr.

Created half to rise and half to fall, / Great 40 lord of all things, yet a prey to all; / Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. Pope.