Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding. - Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
- Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.
- Company in distress makes trouble less.
- Complete equality means universal irresponsibility.
- Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
- Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof, it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
- con man
- Concentrate, it saves time and money.
- Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at.
- Confession is the first step to repentance.
- conk out
- Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- Constant dropping wears away a stone.
- Control of enterprisers is a job for the steering wheel, not for the brake.
- Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
- Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
- cook someone's goose
- cook up
- cool down
- cool it
- Cooperation, not competition, is the life of business.
- cough up
- could have gotten
- Counsel is no command.
- Cowards die many times before their deaths.
- cozy up
- crab
- crabby
- crack a joke
- crack down
- cram
- crash the gate
- Creditors have better memories than debtors.
- creep
- Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
- Criticism tests a man's strength, flattery finds his weakness.
- Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
- Crows do not pick crow's eyes.
- Cruelty is part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is one thing that seems unnatural to us.
- Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
- cry uncle
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