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Herb Caen (2)
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
202 other wisdom & wit relating to society
John Cage (4)
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
197 quotes about business
Taylor Caldwell (10)
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
321 quotes relating to death
Cab Calloway (2)
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
345 more quotes about happiness
Jeanne Calment (3)
Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
321 other wisdom & wit about death
John Calvin (7)
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
240 quotes regarding faith
John Cameron (6)
I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.
91 quotes relating to health
Joseph Campbell (18)
Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.
11 wisdom & wit regarding computers
Alastair Campbell (5)
My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.
38 more quotes about fatherhood
Albert Camus (52)
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
233 thoughts about being alone
Elias Canetti (6)
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
321 other sayings regarding death
George Canning (3)
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
233 other sayings about being alone
Eddie Cantor (2)
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
180 wisdom & wit regarding marriage
Robert Capa (2)
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
216 sayings regarding hope
Karel Capek (2)
Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
199 views relating to freedom
Truman Capote (4)
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
142 thoughts about failure
Al Capp (4)
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
424 views regarding art
Thomas Carlyle (58)
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
233 other sayings about being alone
Stokely Carmichael (8)
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
161 quotes about courage
Marcel Carne (2)
It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.
112 other quotes about respect
Andrew Carnegie (13)
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
249 thoughts about aging
Dale Carnegie (21)
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
44 other quotes about attitudes
Alexis Carrel (5)
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
218 other views regarding beauty
Lewis Carroll (7)
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
24 quotes relating to birthday
Angela Carter (3)
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
249 quotes regarding aging
Joyce Cary (4)
The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.
30 quotes about cars
Giacomo Casanova (4)
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
161 views regarding courage
Robert Casey (5)
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
41 quotes regarding the law
Carlos Castaneda (2)
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
262 quotes relating to knowledge
Carlos Castenada (2)
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
262 more views about knowledge
Willa Cather (9)
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
249 wisdom & wit about aging
Catherine the Great (6)
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
197 quotes relating to business
Richard Cecil (2)
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
262 more sayings about knowledge
Paul Cezanne (23)
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
249 other quotes about aging
Joshua Chamberlain (2)
We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
165 sayings relating to the future
Oswald Chambers (5)
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
15 quotes about amazing
Chanakya (13)
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
218 quotes about beauty
Raymond Chandler (8)
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
249 quotes about aging
William Ellery Channing (11)
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
174 more wisdom & wit about experience
Edwin Hubbel Chapin (5)
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
364 more quotes regarding best
Charlie Chaplin (11)
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
233 other quotes regarding being alone
John Jay Chapman (3)
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
184 other thoughts about government
Geoffrey Chaucer (6)
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
249 quotes relating to aging
Cesar Chavez (3)
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
78 views about food
John Cheever (9)
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
233 quotes regarding being alone
Anton Chekhov (19)
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
233 other quotes regarding being alone
Gilbert K. Chesterton (52)
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
62 more thoughts about architecture
Lydia M. Child (3)
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
249 quotes about aging
Agatha Christie (4)
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
249 other wisdom & wit about aging
Winston Churchill (74)
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
44 more sayings about attitudes
John Ciardi (6)
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
424 other quotes about art
Emile M. Cioran (18)
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
321 more views about death
James Freeman Clarke (4)
Conscience is the root of all true courage if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
161 quotes about courage
John Clayton (4)
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
233 other quotes about being alone
Eldridge Cleaver (2)
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
250 wisdom & wit regarding history
Georges Clemenceau (2)
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
174 quotes regarding experience
Grover Cleveland (6)
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
184 more quotes about government
Patsy Cline (4)
Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!
30 views about cars
Irvin S. Cobb (3)
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
249 quotes regarding aging
William Cobbett (2)
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
345 other quotes about happiness
Richard Cobden (3)
But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
345 quotes regarding happiness
Jacqueline Cochran (3)
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
321 other quotes about death
Jean Cocteau (24)
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
424 quotes about art
Edward Coke (2)
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
131 sayings regarding home
Frank Moore Colby (3)
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
58 other wisdom & wit about anger
Nat King Cole (2)
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
210 other views relating to education
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (24)
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
62 other quotes about architecture
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (9)
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
249 other wisdom & wit about aging
Jeremy Collier (4)
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
161 wisdom & wit regarding courage
Robert Collier (9)
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
25 quotes about environmental
Michael Collins (2)
I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
233 wisdom & wit about being alone
Charles Caleb Colton (30)
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
233 thoughts about being alone
Christopher Columbus (5)
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
277 thoughts about fear
Arthur Holly Compton (2)
My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
44 quotes regarding attitudes
William Congreve (10)
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
58 other quotes about anger
Cyril Connolly (15)
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
87 other views about family
Joseph Conrad (14)
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
233 other quotes regarding being alone
Calvin Coolidge (17)
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
197 views regarding business
Anna Julia Cooper (2)
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
199 more quotes about freedom
Nicolaus Copernicus (3)
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
250 more thoughts about history
Barry Cornwall (3)
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
218 more quotes about beauty
Howard Cosell (3)
After all, is football a game or a religion?
247 more wisdom & wit regarding religion
Gustave Courbet (2)
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
218 wisdom & wit about beauty
Jacques Yves Cousteau (6)
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
345 quotes regarding happiness
William Cowper (12)
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
175 wisdom & wit about change
Frank Crane (2)
A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
427 other quotes about being good
Quentin Crisp (8)
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
175 other sayings regarding change
Davy Crockett (5)
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
142 other sayings about failure
Herbert Croly (2)
Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
240 quotes about faith
Aleister Crowley (4)
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
240 thoughts regarding faith
e. e. cummings (13)
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
161 thoughts about courage
Imogen Cunningham (2)
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
212 other views about science
Will Cuppy (5)
Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
131 more wisdom & wit regarding home
Marie Curie (4)
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
277 more quotes regarding fear
George William Curtis (6)
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
58 wisdom & wit regarding anger
Cyril Cusack (3)
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
247 thoughts about religion