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502. Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

503. Competition doesn't create character, it exposes it.

504. Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. --Henry Ford II

505. Complain to one who can help you. Yugoslav Proverb

506. Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.--Jonathan Swift

507. Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. --Saint Augustine

508. Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. -- John Dewey

509. Complete honesty at all times is nothing more than stupidity.

510. Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

511. Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers.

512. Comport thyself in life as at a banquet. If a plate is offered thee, extend thy hand and take it moderately; if it be withdrawn, do not detain it. If it come not to thy side, make not thy desire loudly known, but wait patiently till it be offered thee. Use the same moderation towards thy wife and thy children, toward honors and riches.

513. Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. --Thomas Beecham

514. Comprehend this great wisdom, under-stand this knowledge, inquire into it and ponder on it, render it evident and lead the Creator back to His throne again.

515. Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.--Tryon Edwards

516. Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.--Reginald Wright Kaufman

517. Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer. (Merrit Malloy)

518. 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. --James Russell Lowell

519. Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf. --Gilbert K. Chesterton

520. Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

521. Compromise: the art of dividing a cake so that everybody believes he or she got the biggest piece.

522. Computer -- A device designed to speed and automate errors.

523. Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

524. Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

525. Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

526. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

527. Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.--Anon

528. Computers have made it possible to make a thousand mistakes every second.

529. Computers know everything.

530. Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

531. Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

532. Computers never crash.

533. Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost.--Anon

534. Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth. --Andrei Gromyko

535. Conceal a flaw, and teh world will imagine the worst. Martial

536. Conceit causes more conversation than wit. --François de La Rochefoucauld

537. Conceited (=ingenious) goods are quickly spent.

538. Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

539. Concentration is the secret of strength. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

540. Concept, n.:Any idea for which an outside consultant billed you more than $25,000.

541. Condemn no man and consider nothing impossible, for there is no man who does not have a future and there is nothing that does not have its hour.

542. Condense soup, not books!

543. Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

544. Confess and be hanged.

545. Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at. --Josh Billings

546. Confessed faults are half mended. Scottish Proverb

547. Confession

548. Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff.

549. Confession is good for the soul, but bad for the career.

550. Confession is good for the soul.

551. Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation. --Thomas Dewar

552. Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

553. Confidence is a very fragile thing.

554. Confidence is nowhere safe.

555. Confidence is simply that quiet, assured feeling you have - just before you fall flat on your face.

556. Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honourable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

557. Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.--Anon.

558. Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.--Ethiopian proverb

559. Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheep like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

560. Conform and be dull. --J. Frank Doble

561. Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.--John F. Kennedy

562. Confrontation is better than Avoidance.--Yiddish Proverbs

563. Confucius say man who sink into woman's arms soon have arms in woman's sink. Confucius say wife for life is better than wife for strife.

564. Confucius says, Baseball strange sport, how can one man walk with four balls

565. Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

566. Confusion on the money ---Irish Curse

567. Congratulations and best wishes on this very special day. Love Bill and Mary Farkin and the whole farkin family.

568. Congratulations on finding a socket outlet for your plug!

569. Congratulations on the termination of your isolation and may I express an appreciation of your determination to end the desperation and frustration which has caused you so much consternation in giving you the inspiration to make a combination to bring an accumulation to the population.

570. Congratulations, rots of ruck, sideways is great.

571. Congress - these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage. - Mary McCarthy

572. Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody disagrees. --Boris Marshalov

573. Congruity is the mother of love.

574. Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle. --Samuel Johnson

575. Connect with good shape.

576. Conquer thyself. Till thou hast done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

577. Conquered, we conquer.

578. Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. -- Oscar Wilde

579. Conscience gets a lot of credit that belong to cold feet.

580. Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. --H. L. Mencken

581. Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.

582. Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking.

583. Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. --George Bancroft

584. Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. - Doug Horton

585. Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.

586. Conscience: The inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. - H.L. Mencken

587. Conscience: The thing that makes you tell your husband before somebody else does.

588. Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us. --Henry Fielding

589. Conscious is when you are aware of something and conscience is when you wish you weren't.

590. Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large. Gandhi

591. Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.

592. Consciousness is what happens to intelligence when it is confronted with an object.

593. Consciousness my only friend

594. Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.

595. Consensus rules - if that's OK with you.

596. Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!--Chuck Jones-directed cartoon

597. Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law. --Lyndon Baines Johnson

598. Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men. --Gifford Pinchot

599. Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.--Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), from Social Statistics (1850)

600. Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.from Coningsby,