-- James B. Cabell
The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the
pessimist fears this is true.
-- Julius Caesar
I came, I saw, I conquered.
-- Michael Caine
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens
underneath.
-- Arthur Calwell
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
-- Simon Cameron
An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
-- Joseph Campbell
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are
looking for the experience of being alive.
-- Eddie Cantor
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
-- Al Capone
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word
alone.
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
-- Thomas Carlyle
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the
benefit of the doubt.
-- Andrew Carnegie
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the
credit for doing it.
-- Dale Carnegie
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have
kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
-- Rosalynn Carter
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they
don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.
-- Carlos Castaneda
The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior
takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or
a curse.
-- Dick Cavett
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense
it.
-- Viscount Cecil
Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.
-- Charles A. Cerami
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are
instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem
insignificant.
-- Joseph Chamberlian
Learn and think imperially.
-- Richard Chamberland
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
-- Kyle Chandler
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
-- W. E. Channing
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the
opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
-- Maurice Chevalier
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
-T'ao Ch'ien
Just surrender to the cycle of things, Give yourself to the waves of the Great
Change, And when it is time to go, then simply go, Without any unnecessary fuss."
-- Chilton
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for
all time.
-- Chinese Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool
forever.
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees;
if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat
Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the
end of the beginning
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British
Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, `This was their
finest hourī
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall
fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength
in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the
beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the
streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue
of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off
as if nothing had happened.
I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of
meeting me is another matter.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and
carry on.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
I like a man who grins when he fights.
-- Cicero
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
In time of war the law falls silent
-- Arthur C Clarke
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
--Frances Clark
There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on
the same one."
-- Georges Clemenceau
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from
barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
-- Mark A. Clement
Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they
promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.
-- Peter Cochrane
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who
cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
-- Samuel Coleridge
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
-- Confucius
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
-- Calvin Coolidge
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is
more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is
almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence
and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the
problems of the human race.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he
gave.
-- Todd Coomber
Good looks open doors, but they don't keep you in the room.
-- Chad Coombs
Memories of today, brings legends for tomorrow.
-- Michael Corleone
Never hate you enemies, it affects you judgment.
-- Bill Cosby
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody.
-- E. Joseph Cossman
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
-- Stephen Covey
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences
of our actions.
-- Thomas Cowan
The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.
-- George Crane
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always
receptive to new ideas.
--
Marie Curie
One never notices what has been done. one can
only see what remains to be done
