Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
makes a good horse. Dan. Pr.
Care is no cure, but rather a corrosive, / For things that are not to be remedied. 1 Hen. VI., iii. 3.
Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. Goethe.
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, / And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.
Care killed the cat. Pr. 5
Carelessness is worse than theft. Gael. Pr.
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, / His pity gave ere charity began. Goldsmith.
Care's an enemy to life. Twelfth Night, i. 3.
Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow with it. Jean Paul.
Care that has enter'd once into the breast, / 10 Will have the whole possession ere it rest. Ben Jonson.
Caret—It is wanting.
Caret initio et fine—It has neither beginning nor end.
Caret periculo, qui etiam cum est tutus cavet—He is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety, is on his guard. Pub. Syr.
Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, / And every grin, so merry, draws one out. Wolcot.
Care will kill a cat, but ye canna live without 15 it. Sc. Pr.
Carica volontario non carica—A willing burden is no burden. It. Pr.
Car il n'est si beau jour qui n'amène sa nuit—There is no day, however glorious, but sets in night. Fr.
Carior est illis homo quam sibi—Man is dearer to them (i.e., the gods) than to himself. Juv.
Cari sunt parentes, cari liberi, propinqui, familiares; sed omnes omnium caritates, patria una complexa est—Dear are our parents, dear our children, our relatives, and our associates, but all our affections for all these are embraced in our affection for our native land. Cic.
Carmen perpetuum primaque origine mundi 20 ad tempora nostra—A song for all ages, and from the first origin of the world to our own times. Transposed from Ovid.
Carmen triumphale—A song of triumph.
Carmina nil prosunt; nocuerunt carmina quondam—My rhymes are of no use; they once wrought me harm. Ovid.
Carmina spreta exolescunt; si irascare, agnita videntur—Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. Tac.
Carmine di superi placantur, carmine Manes—The gods above and the gods below are alike propitiated by song. Hor.
Carmine fit vivax virtus; expersque sepulcri, 25 notitiam seræ posteritatis habet—By verse virtue is made immortal; and, exempt from burial, obtains the homage of remote posterity. Ovid.
Carpet knights. Burton.
Carpe diem—Make a good use of the present. Hor.
Carry on every enterprise as if all depended on the success of it. Richelieu.
Carte blanche—Unlimited power to act (lit. blank paper). Fr.
Car tel est votre plaisir—For such is your pleasure. 30 Fr.
Casa hospidada, comida y denostada—A house which is filled with guests is both eaten up and spoken ill of. Sp. Pr.
Casa mia, casa mia, per piccina che tu sia, tu mi sembri una badia—Home, dear home, small though thou be, thou art to me a palace. It. Pr.
Casar, casar, e que do governo?—Marry, marry, and what of the management of the house? Port. Pr.
Casar, casar, soa bem, e sabe mal—Marrying sounds well, but tastes ill. Port. Pr.
Cassis tutissima virtus—Virtue is the safest 35 helmet. M.
Casta ad virum matrona parendo imperat—A chaste wife acquires an influence over her husband by obeying him. Laber.
Casta moribus et integra pudore—Of chaste morals and unblemished modesty. Mart.
Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds. Tennyson.
Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living, ever-working universe. It is a seed-grain that cannot die; unnoticed to-day, it will be found flourishing as a banyan-grove, perhaps, alas! as a hemlock forest, after a thousand years. Carlyle.
Cast him (a lucky fellow) into the Nile, and he 40 will come up with a fish in his mouth. Arab. Pr.
Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up. Bulwer Lytton.
Castor gaudet equis, ovo prognatus eodem / Pugnis—Castor delights in horses; he that sprung from the same egg, in boxing. Hor.
Castrant alios, ut libros suos, per se graciles, alieno adipe suffarciant—They castrate the books of others, that they may stuff their own naturally lean ones with their fat. Jovius.
Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days. Bible.
Cast thy bread upon the waters; God will 45 know of it, if the fishes do not. Eastern Pr.
Casus belli—A cause for war; originally, fortune of war.
Casus quem sæpe transit, aliquando invenit—Misfortune will some time or other overtake him whom it has often passed by. Pub. Syr.
Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus. / Quo minimè credas gurgite, piscis erit—There is scope for chance everywhere; let your hook be always hanging ready. In the eddies where you least expect it, there will be a fish. Ovid.
Catalogue raisonné—A catalogue topically arranged. Fr.
Catch as catch can. Antiochus Epiphanes. 50
Catching a Tartar, i.e., an adversary too strong for one.
Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance. Pr.
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; / Improve each moment as it flies; / Life's a short summer—man a flower—/ He dies—alas! how soon he dies! Johnson.
Catholicism commonly softens, while Protestantism strengthens, the character; but the softness of the one often degenerates into weakness, and the strength of the other into hardness. Lecky.
Cato contra mundum—Cato against the world.
Cato esse, quam videri, bonus malebat—Cato would rather be good than seem good. Sallust.
Cattiva è quella lana, che non si può tingere—Bad is the cloth that won't dye. It. Pr.
Cattivo è quel sacco che non si puo rappezzare—Bad 5 is the sack that won't patch. It. Pr.
Cattle go blindfold