Quotes starting with C
Below you will find our collection of inspirational quotes and sayings starting with the letter C, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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Caesar's wife must be above suspicion. -- Julius Caesar (c.102-44 BC)
Can't get blood from a stone. -- unknown
Can't see the forest for the trees. -- unknown
Carve the peg by looking at the hole. -- Korean (on appropriateness)
Change is inevitable -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Change yourself and fortune will change. -- Portuguese (on fortune)
Character building begins in infancy and continues until death. -- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
Character is easier kept than recovered. -- English (on character and virtue)
Character is habit long continued. -- Greek
Charity begins at home. -- Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771)
Charity covers a multitude of sins. -- Bible (Peter 4:8)
Chickens don't praise their own soup. -- Martinican (on flattery and praise)
Children are a poor man's riches. -- English Proverb
Children have more need of models than critics. -- French (on parents and children)
Choose the hills wisely on which you must do battle. -- unknown
Choose to be forgiven. -- unknown
Choose your neighbors before you buy your house. -- Hausa (West African) (on planning)
Chop your own wood; it will warm you twice. -- Mack King
Circumstances alter cases. -- T. Rymer (1678)
Civility costs nothing and buys everything. -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
Clean your finger before you point at my spots. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. -- John Harvey MacDonald Jr. combat wounded, Vietnam 1969
Clothes don't make the man. -- unknown
Clothes may disguise a fool, but his voice will give him away. -- unknown
Clouds gather before a storm. -- unknown
Clouds that thunder, do not always rain. -- Armenian (on vanity and arrogance)
Cold hands, warm heart. -- V.S. Lean (1903)
Come what may, time and hour runs through the roughest day. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Common sense is not so common. -- French (on common sense)
Compete -- n't envy.- Yemeni (on jealousy and envy)
Confession is good for the soul. -- Scottish Proverb
Conscience makes cowards of us all. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Constant dripping will wear away a stone. -- Greek Proverb
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Control your emotions or they will control you. -- Chinese Proverb
Count your blessings. -- unknown
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it. -- William Danforth (1870-1955)
Courage is the complement of fear. -- Lazarus Long, thanks to D. Housel
Cowards die many times before their death. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Creditors have better memories than debtors. -- English (on business)
Curiosity killed the cat. -- E. O'Neill (1888-1953)
Curses like chickens, come home to roost. -- Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
Cut your coat according to your cloth. -- John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
Cutting off a mule's ears doesn't make it a horse. -- Creole (on authenticity)