Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
when too small, to pinch the feet; so is it with him whose fortune does not suit him. Hor.
Cui placet alterius, sua nimirum est odio sors—When 50 a man envies another's lot, it is natural he should be discontented with his own. Hor.
Cui placet, obliviscitur; cui dolet, meminit—Acts of kindness are soon forgotten, but the memory of an offence remains. Pr.
Cui prodest scelus, is fecit—He has committed the crime who profits by it. Sen.
Cuique suum—His own to every one. Pr.
Cui serpe mozzica, lucenta teme—Whom a serpent has bitten fears a lizard. It. Pr.
Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad cœlum—He 55 who owns the soil owns everything above it to the very sky. L.
Cujus rei libet simulator atque dissimulator—A finished pretender and dissembler. Sall.
Cujusvis hominis est errare: nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare—Every one is liable to err; none but a fool will persevere in error. Cic.
Cujus vita fulgor, ejus verba tonitrua—His words are thunderbolts whose life is as lightning. Mediæval Pr.
Cujus vulturis hoc erit cadaver?—To what harpy's will shall this carcass fall? Mart.
Cul de sac—A street, a lane or passage, that has no outlet. Fr.
Culpam pœna premit comes—Punishment follows 5 hard upon crime as an attendant. Hor.
Cultivated labour drives out brute labour. Emerson.
Cultivate not only the cornfields of your mind, but the pleasure-grounds also. Whately.
Cultivation is as necessary to the mind as food to the body. Cic.
Culture, aiming at the perfection of the man as the end, degrades everything else, as health and bodily life, into means. Emerson.
Culture enables us to express ourselves. 10 Hamerton.
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers. Emerson.
Culture inverts the vulgar views of nature, and brings the mind to call that apparent which it uses to call real, and that real which it uses to call visionary. Emerson.
Culture is a study of perfection. Matthew Arnold.
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail. Matthew Arnold.
Culture (is the process by which a man) becomes 15 all that he was created capable of being, resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious, adhesions, and showing himself at length in his own shape and stature, be these what they may. Carlyle.
Culture merely for culture's sake can never be anything but a sapless root, capable of producing at best a shrivelled branch. J. W. Cross.
Culture must not omit the arming of the man. Emerson.
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.
Cunning leads to knavery; 'tis but a step, and that a very slippery, from the one to the other. Lying only makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. La Bruyère.
Cunning signifies especially a habit or gift of over-reaching, accompanied with enjoyment and a sense of superiority. Ruskin.
Cunning surpasses strength. Ger. Pr. 30
Cupias non placuisse nimis—Do not aim at too much popularity. Mart.
Cupid is a knavish lad, / Thus to make poor females mad. Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2.
Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plumes. Sir P. Sidney.
Cupido dominandi cunctis affectibus flagrantior est—The desire of rule is the most ardent of all the affections of the mind. Tac.
Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' 35 club. Love's L. Lost, i. 2.
Curæ leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent—Light troubles are loud-voiced, deeper ones are dumb. Sen.
Cura facit canos—Care brings grey hairs. Pr.
Cura pii dis sunt, et qui coluere, coluntur—The pious-hearted are cared for by the gods, and they who reverence them are reverenced. Ovid.
Cura ut valeas—Take care that you keep well. Cic.
Curiosa felicitas—Studied felicity of thought or 40 of style.
Curiosis fabricavit inferos—He fashioned hell for the inquisitive. St. Augustine.
Curiosity is a desire to know why and how; such as is in no living creature but man. Hobbes.
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. Emerson.
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. Victor Hugo.
Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit. 45 Knock, therefore, at the door before you enter on your neighbour's privacy; and remember that there is no difference between entering into his house and looking into it. Jeremy Taylor.
Curiosity is the kernel of the forbidden fruit. Fuller.
Curiosus nemo est, quin idem sit malevolus—Nobody is inquisitive about you who does not also bear you ill-will. Plaut.
Curious to think how, for every man, any the truest fact is modelled by the nature of the man. Carlyle.
Currente calamo—With a running pen.
Cursed be the social ties that warp us from 50 the living truth. Tennyson.
Curse on all laws but those which love has made. Pope.
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