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- James B. Cabell Men willingly believe what they wish. - Julius Caesar I came, I saw, I conquered. - Julius Caesar Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. - Michael Caine It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. - Arthur Calwell An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought. - Simon Cameron I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. - Joseph Campbell Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. - Albert Camus Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. - Albert Camus We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves. - Albert Camus It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. - Eddie Cantor You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. - Al Capone (1899-1947) When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality. - Al Capone I don't even know what street Canada is on. - Al Capone Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. - Al Capp It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore. - Alex Carey If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. - Thomas Carlyle No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. - Thomas Carlyle Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. - Thomas Carlyle No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. - Andrew Carnegie All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. - Andrew Carnegie Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie In time of war the first casualty is truth. - Boake Carter A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be. - Rosalynn Carter Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood. - Karen Casey Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. - M. Kathleen Casey The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse. - Carlos Castaneda Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice Doggie!" till you can find a rock. - Wynn Catlin After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. - Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, a.k.a. Marcus Porcius Cato) As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. - Dick Cavett Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety. - Viscount Cecil I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. - Katherine Cebrian Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant. - Charles A. Cerami Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away. - Luis Cernuda A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. - Miguel de Cervantes Learn and think imperially. - Joseph Chamberlian It is better to wear out than to rust out. - Richard Chamberland The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed. - Chamfort Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. - Kyle Chandler The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. - W. E. Channing If you're up against someone more intelligent than you are, do something totally insane and let him think himself to death. - Pyanfar Chanur In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence. - Cesar Chavez We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. - Chekov Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. - Maurice Chevalier Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. - Chilton He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. - Chinese Proverb I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. - Chinese Proverb There is only one pretty child in the world and every mother has it. - Chinese Proverb. If thine enemy wrong thee, but each of his children a drum. - Chinese Proverb If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. - Chinese Proverb The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. - Chinese Proverb No one can guarantee success in war, only deserve it. - Sir Winston Churchill I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. - Sir Winston Churchill Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few. - Sir Winston Churchill Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. - Sir Winston Churchill Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, `This was their finest hourī. - Sir Winston Churchill We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strenght in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. - Sir Winston Churchill Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. - Sir Winston Churchill The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. - Sir Winston Churchill Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Sir Winston Churchill I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Sir Winston Churchill The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. - Sir Winston Churchill By swalloing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. - Sir Winston Churchill It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Sir Winston Churchill Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning. - Sir Winston Churchill Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it. - Sir Winston Churchill Responsibility equals the price of greatness. - Sir Winston Churchill The price of greatness is responsibility. - Sir Winston Churchill I like a man who grins when he fights. - Sir Winston Churchill When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal. - Sir Winston Churchill A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Sir Winston Churchill A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. - Sir Winston Churchill Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. - Cicero (106-43 B.C.) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it. - Cicero No Sane man will dance. - Cicero When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. - Cicero The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. - Tom Clancy Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. - Karen Kaiser Clark Who will protect the public when the police violate the law? - Ramsey Clark It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. - Arthur C. Clarke Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. - Arthur C. Clarke Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz (1780-1831) Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. - Henry Clay You're either part of the solution or part of the problem. - Eldridge Cleaver The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. - Eldridge Cleaver War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. - Georges Clemenceau America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. - Georges Clemenceau Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver. - Mark A. Clement Samuel Clemmens - see Mark Twain Your daily agenda must be goal driven. If not, a task driven agenda will perpetuate. - Glenn Close Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live. - Peter Cochrane The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head. - Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) My grandpa told me to remember two things in life. Look out for Number One, and remember your number. - Orville Cogswell Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge When an emotional injury takes place, the body begins a process as natural as the healing of a physical wound. Let the process happen. Trust that nature will do the healing. Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware. - Mel Colgrove When you have nothing to say, say nothing. - Charles Caleb Colton The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. - Charles Caleb Colton Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. - Charles Caleb Colton Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising each time we fall. - Confucius Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. - Confucius Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucius I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep. For my shadow in the pool can do better than that. - Confucius Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucius Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. - William Congreve (1670-1729) Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out. - Cyril Connolly Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. - Cyril Connolly Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. - Cyril Connolly The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. - Cyril Connolly You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. - Joseph Conrad Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. - Joseph Conrad Although our bodies are seperated by many miles, our souls remain yet entwined. - Krista Conway Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. - Calvin Coolidge No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. - Calvin Coolidge Never hate you enemies, it affects you judgment. - Michael Corleone I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. - E. Joseph Cossman Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. - Laurence Coughlin While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. - Stephen R. Covey Before you wonder 'Am I doing things right,' ask 'Am I doing the right things? - Stephen R. Covey Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. - Stephen R. Covey The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt. - Thomas Cowan It's not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better. - Alberta Lee Cox, Grade 8 Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas. - George Crane A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was wiser than the other. - Stephan Crane I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today. - Abraham Crowley A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain. - Abraham Crowley I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. - Madame Curie |