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201. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read, and nobody wants to read. - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

202. A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.

203. A clean tie attracts soup of the day.

204. A clean shirt attracts the soup of the day.

205. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

206. A clear-cut case meets with difficulty because of a tendency to be lenient. The man must be as true as gold and as impartial as the mean.

207. A clever man commits no minor blunders. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

208. A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein

209. A close bond is possible only between two persons. A group of three engenders jealousy.

210. A close friend can become a close enemy.

211. A close mouth catches no flies.

212. A closed mind is a good thing to lose.

213. A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.-- Chinese Proverb

214. A closed mouth gathers no feet.

215. A closed mouth gathers no feet. does this one really count?

216. A closed mouth gathers no foot.

217. A closed mouth--a wise head

218. A cock is or bold on his own dunghill.

219. A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's _really_ attractive.

220. A cold hand and a warm heart.

221. A cold is both positive and negative. Sometimes the eyes have it and sometimes the nose.

222. A cold May and a windy Makes a full barn and solid.

223. A college education shows a man how little other people know.

224. A collier's cow and an alewife's sow are always well fed

225. A commitment is your best investment.

226. A Committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

227. A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. --Anonymous

228. A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. --Milton Berle

229. A committee takes hours to put into minutes what can be done in seconds. Judy Castrina

230. A committee. When all is said and done, 90% is said, and 10% is done.

231. A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up. --Winston Churchill

232. A commuter is one who never knows how a show comes out because he has to leave early to catch a train to get him back to the country in time to catch a train to bring him back to the city.

233. A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

234. A complete catastrophe includes not learning from the experience.

235. A complete well-adjusted person is a bore.

236. A component selected at random from a group having 99% reliability, will be a member of the 1% group.

237. A computer can make as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working for 20 years.

238. A computer is only as good as the people who are employed to replace the people who were made redundant by the computer.

239. A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human historywith the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

240. A computer's attention span is as long as it's power cord.

241. A conceited person never gets anywhere because he thinks he is already there.

242. A concept is stronger than a fact. --Charlotte P. Gillman

243. A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

244. A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

245. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.--Martin H. Fischer

246. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.

247. A conference is a way of postponing a decision.

248. A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

249. A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. - Abba Eban

250. A conservative is a man who wants the rules changed so no one can make a pile the way he did. -- Gregory Nunn

251. A conservative is a politician who wants to keep what the liberals fought for a generation ago.

252. A constant GUEST is never welcome.

253. A contented spirit alone makes a man pass through fire and not be scorched; through seas, and not be drowned; through hunger and nakedness and want nothing. ---(JEREMY TAYLOR).

254. A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.

255. A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.

256. A cottage will not hold the bulky furniture and sumptuous accommo-dations of a mansion; but if God be there, a cottage will hold as much happiness as might stock a palace. ---(JAMES HAMILTON).

257. A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

258. A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

259. A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

260. A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.

261. A couple of times he was crossed in love; then he got married and was double-crossed.

262. A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.--Henry Waldorf Francis

263. A COVETOUS man does nothing that he should till he dies.

264. A covetous man is good to none, but worst to himself.

265. A COVETOUS man serves his riches, not they him.

266. A cow gave birth to a fire: she wanted to lick it, but it burned; she wanted to leave it, but she could not because it was her own child.

267. A cow must graze where she is tied.

268. A cow that has no tail should not try to chase away flies.

269. A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -

270. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

271. A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.--Thomas Jefferson

272. A coward sweats in water.

273. A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.--Quintus Curtius Rufus

274. A crab does not beget a bird.

275. A crab of the wood is sauce very good For a crab of the sea. The wood of a crab is good for a drab That will not her husband obey.

276. A cracked bell can never sound well.

277. A crafty knave needs no broker.

278. A creaking CART goes long on the wheels.

279. A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.

280. A creaking gate [or door] hangs long.(long-lived invalids.)

281. A creature of a more exalted kind Was wanting yet, and therefore was designed; Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast For empire formed and fit to rule the rest....

282. A crisis is when you can't say "Let's forget the whole thing."

283. A CROW is never the whiter for washing herself often.

284. A crow spent many hours decorating himself with feathers that had fallen from the peacocks. When he was finished, the crow visited the colorful birds and strutted about proudly, attempting to pass himself off as one of their kind. Insulted by his actions, the peacocks ran the crow off. When he returned to his village, the other crows laughed at him and demanded that he go live among the peacocks, since he so desired to be one. Moral: Be content with what nature has given you, or be prepared to earn contempt for trying to be what you are not.

285. A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. --William Rounseville Alger

286. A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures. --Francis Bacon

287. A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns; Brings danger, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears a regal diadem.

288. A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. -- Ouida

289. A crumb from a winner's table is better than a feast from a loser's table!

290. A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

291. A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. --John A. Lincoln

292. A cup in the pate is a mile in the gate.

293. A curst cow has short horns.

294. A cutting word is worse than a bowstring; a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not.

295. A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

296. A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.--Ambrose Bierce

297. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.--Oscar Wilde

298. A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. --Carolyn Wells

299. A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.--H. L. Mencken

300. A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.


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