Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
discovered no isle or key so lonely 35 as himself. Emerson.
Combien de héros, glorieux, magnanimes, ont vécu trop d'un jour—How many famous and high-souled heroes have lived a day too long! J. B. Rousseau.
Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other. Johnson.
Come, and trip it as you go, / On the light fantastic toe. Milton.
Come, civil night, / Thou sober-suited matron, all in black. Rom. and Jul., iii. 2.
Come, cordial, not poison. Rom. and Jul., v. 1. 40
Comedians are not actors; they are only imitators of actors. Zimmermann.
Come è duro calle—How hard is the path. Dante.
Come, fair Repentance, daughter of the skies! / Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; / The weeping messenger of grace from heaven. Browne.
Come forth into the light of things, / Let Nature be your teacher. Wordsworth.
Come he slow or come he fast, / It is but 45 Death who comes at last. Scott.
Come like shadows, so depart. Bowles.
Come, my best friends, my books, and lead me on. Cowley.
Come one, come all! this rock shall fly / From its firm base as soon as I. Scott.
Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est—A pleasant companion on the road is as good as a carriage. Pub. Syr.
Come the three corners of the world in arms, / 50 And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, / If England to itself do rest but true. King John, v. 7.
Come, we burn daylight. Rom. and Jul., i. 4.
Come what come may, / Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. Macb., i. 3.
Come what sorrow can, / It cannot countervail th' exchange of joy / That one short minute gives me in her sight. Rom. and Jul., ii. 6.
Comfort is the god of this world, but comfort it will never obtain by making it an object. Whipple.
Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth, / 55 Where nothing lives but crosses, care, and grief. Rich. II., ii. 2.
Coming events cast their shadows before. Campbell.
Comitas inter gentes—Courtesy between nations.
Command large fields, but cultivate small ones. Virg.
Comme il faut—As it should be. Fr.
Comme je fus—As I was. M. 60
Comme je trouve—As I find it. M.
Commend a fool for his wit or a knave for his honesty, and he will receive you into his bosom. Fielding.
Commend me rather to him who goes wrong in a way that is his own, than to him who walks correctly in a way that is not. Goethe.
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations. T. Gray.
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, contingent, transitory, almost as liable to change as the winds and waves that waft it to our shores. Colton.
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the 5 signet of all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore and called it gold. Shelley.
Commerce is a game of skill, which every one cannot play, which few men can play well. Emerson.
Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled. Johnson.
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Emerson.
Committunt multi eadem diverso crimina fato, / Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulerit, hic diadema—How different the fate of men who commit the same crimes! For the same villany one man goes to the gallows, and another is raised to a throne.
Common as light is love, / And its familiar 10 voice wearies not ever. Shelley.
Common chances common men can bear. Coriolanus, iv. 1.
Common distress is a great promoter both of friendship and speculation. Swift.
Common fame is seldom to blame. Pr.
Commonly they use their feet for defence whose tongue is their weapon. Sir P. Sidney.
Common men are apologies for men; they 15 bow the head, excuse themselves with prolix reasons, and accumulate appearances, because the substance is not. Emerson.
Common-place people see no difference between one man and another. Pascal.
Common-sense is calculation applied to life. Amiel.
Common-sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities. W. R. Alger.
Common-sense is the genius of humanity. Goethe.
Common-sense is the measure of the possible; 20 it is calculation applied to life. Amiel.
Common souls pay with what they do; nobler souls, with what they are. Emerson.
Communautés commencent par bâtir leur cuisine—Communities begin with building their kitchen. Fr. Pr.
Commune bonum—A common good.
Commune naufragium omnibus est consolatio—A shipwreck (disaster) that is common is a consolation to all. Pr.
Commune periculum concordiam parit—A common 25 danger tends to concord. L.
Communia esse amicorum inter se omnia—All things are common among friends. Ter.
Communibus annis—One year with another.
Communi consensu—By common consent.
Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other. J. G. Holland.
Communism is the exploitation of the strong 30 by the weak. In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. Proudhon.
Como canta el abad, así responde el monacillo—As the abbot sings, the sacristan answers. Sp. Pr.
Compagnon de voyage—A fellow-traveller. Pr.
Company, villanous company, has been the spoil of me. 1 Hen. IV., iii. 3.
Comparaison n'est pas raison—Comparison is no proof. Fr. Pr.
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