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With swimming looks of speechless tenderness. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto III, st. 45) Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Corsair (canto II, st. 15) And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto I, st. 117) Sweet is revenge--especially to women. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto I, st. 124) Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto I, st. 83) . . . all who joy would win Must share it.--Happiness was born a twin. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto II, st. 172) A lady with her daughters or her nieces, Shines like a guinea and seven shilling pieces. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto III, st. 60) Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto IV, st. 12) She had a good opinion of advice, Like all who give and eke receive it gratis, For which small thanks are still the market price, Even where the article at highest rate is. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto XV, st. 29) 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 51) Hasten slowly. [Lat., Festina lente.] - Augustus Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus) Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth. - Julius Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar) Better a bad excuse, than none at all. - William Camden, Remaines--Proverbs (p. 293) An inch in a miss is as good as an ell. - William Camden, Remains Coming events cast their shadows before. - Thomas Campbell No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at hand. - Henry Carey, Translation of Dante The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow. - Thomas Carlyle Speech is silvern, silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle, A Swiss Inscription, quoted in "Sartor Resartus", bk. III, ch. III, a German proverb No man is a hero to his valet-de-chambre. - attributed to Marshal Nicolas Catinat Be firm or mild as the occasion may require. - Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor) Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue. - Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor) Do not expect good from another's death. - Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor) Don't promise twice what you can do at once. - Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor) In doing nothing men learn to do evil. - Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor) Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.] - Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor) We see not our own backs. - Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus) What a woman says to her fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.] - Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus), (Latin) Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God rules the stars. [Lat., Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. Astra regunt homines, sed regit astra Deus.] - Christoph Cellarius (Keller), Harmonia Macrocosmica Many diseases may be cured by abstinence. - Saint Celsus (Cellach) A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Let the worst come to the worst. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (bk. III, ch. V) The more thou stir it the worse it will be. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (bk. III, ch. VIII) The proof of the pudding is in the eating. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (ch. XXIV) Make hay while the sun shines. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. 11) Thank you for nothing. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. VIII) Spare your breath to cool your porridge. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. V) Honesty is the best policy. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXIII) I have other fish to fry. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXV) Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXVII) Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (vol. II, ch. XLIII) Enough is as good as a feast. - George Chapman, Eastward Ho! (act III, sc. 2), written by Chapman, Jonson, Marston Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over the coles. - George Chapman, Sir Gyles Goosecappe The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.] - Pierre Charron, Las Sagesse (bk. I, ch. 3) With emptie hands men may no haukes lure. - Geoffrey Chaucer Many a smale maketh a grate. - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres. - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (l. 1,522), The Knight's Tale So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette. - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (l. 4,155), The Reeve's Tale "But for to assaye," he seyde, "it nought ne greveth; For he that nought nassayeth, nought nacheveth." ["But to attempt it," he said, "should not grieve: for he that attempts nothing will nothing achieve." i.e., Nothing ventured, nothing gained.] - Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (bk. 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