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

Culture of the thinking, the dispositions (Gesinnungen), and the morals is the only education that deserves the name, not mere instruction. Herder.

Cum grano salis—With a grain of salt, i.e., with some allowance.

Cum privilegio—With privilege. 20

Cunctando restituit rem—He restored the cause (of Rome) by delay. Said of Fabius, surnamed therefore Cunctator.

Cuncti adsint, meritæque expectent præmia palmæ—Let all attend, and expect the rewards due to well-earned laurels. Virg.

Cunctis servatorem liberatoremque acclamantibus—All hailing him as saviour and deliverer.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. Hazlitt.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom. W. G. 25 Alger.

Cunning is the intensest rendering of vulgarity, absolute and utter. Ruskin.

Cunning is to wisdom as an ape to a man. William Penn.