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Caen, Herb
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
Caldwell, Sarah
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
Calvin, Cliff "Cheers"
Having a dream isn't stupid, Norm. It's not having a dream that's stupid.
Campbell, Joseph
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Camus, Albert
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
Capone, Al
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
Carey, Sandra
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Carlin, George
Some see the glass as half-empty, some see the glass half-full. I see the glass as too big.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh
Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.
Carnegie, Andrew
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
Carson, Johnny
Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.
Castillo, Ana
Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.
Cather, Willa
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
Catherine the Great
I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
Catherine II
I praise loudly; I blame softly.
Cato the Elder
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Celtic toast
May you live as long as you want to. May you want to as long as you live.
Chandler, Raymond
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Chapman, George
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
Cheney, Dick
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Cher
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher
The trouble with some women is they get all excited over nothing&emdash;and then they marry him!
Chesterton, G.K.
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (G. K.)
Joking is undignified; that's why it's good for the soul.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (G. K.)
There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.
Chevalier, Maurice
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Child, Julia
Life itself is the proper binge.
Child, Julia
Too many cooks spoil the broth, but it only takes one to burn it.
Child, Julia
Whenever you see food beautifully arranged on a plate, you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
Child, Lydia Maria
Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap at the ballot box.
Chinese proverb
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Chinese Proverb
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb
The mind covers more ground than the heart but goes less far.
Chisholm, Shirley
As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers&emdash;a great pity on both counts.
Chisholm, Shirley
When mortality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Christie, Agatha
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Christie, Agatha
The time for planning for a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer
For myself I am an optimist&emdash;it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped on link at a time.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Cicero
Friendship makes prosperity brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing it.
Cicero
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
Cleave, Leroy Eldridge
You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Clemenceau, Georges
A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action.
Coady, M. M.
The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.
Cocteau, Jean
Life is a horizontal fall.
Cocteau, Jean
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it.
Cocteau, Jean
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Colette
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Colette
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Colette
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Colette
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Colton, Charles Caleb
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
Conant, James Bryant
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
Confucius
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
Cook, Derek
Only the person who has climbed the mountain can gripe about the view.
Copland, Andrew
The road of life is dark without you and I . . . just can't see.
Copland, Aaron
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
Cosby, Bill
Fatherhood is pretending that the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Cosby, Bill
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Coty, Rene
It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.
Courier Record
Words without ideas are like sails without wind.
Courter, Wil
You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time.
Creole proverb
Tell me whom you love, and I'll tell you who you are.
Crisp, Quentin
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Crosby, Norm
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Crowell, Robert
The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorous, seen plainest when all around is dark.
Curie, Marie
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Curie, Marie
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
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