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~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~
602. Consider a car thief: It be much easier on these poor souls who work so hard all day only to be rewarded with thousands of dollars for selling a stolen car. To top it off, they have to become familiar with the clutch on each car they swipe. That is okay if you are driving a friends car, but when the cops are after you, and you have just stolen a new Suburban, you need to have a consistent clutch, one you know right away. Car thieves need to get a union together or something.
603. Consider how hard it is to change yourself; and you will understand what little chance you have trying to change others.
604. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
605. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
606. Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. --Josh Billings
607. Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
608. Consider things from every angle.--Wanda Hope Carter
609. Consider what heavy responsibility lies upon you in your youth, to determine, among realities, by what you will be delighted, and, among imaginations, by whose you will be led.
610. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
611. Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. - Oscar Wilde
612. Consistently wrong.
613. Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. --Giuseppe Mazzini
614. Constant chill deep inside.
615. Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. --Benjamin Franklin
616. Constant dropping wears away the stone.
617. Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
618. Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. -- Charles Caleb Colton
619. Constant success shows us but one side of the world; for, as it surrounds us with friends, who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
620. Constant use will wear out anything... especially friends.
621. Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. -- Seneca
622. Consultants are mystical people who ask a company for a number and then give it back to them.
623. Consumers are statistics, customers are people.
624. Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.
625. Contemplating such a body as the House of Representatives one sees only a group of men who have compromised with honor. They have been broken to the goose-step. They have kept silent about good causes, and spoken in causes they know to be evil. The higher they rise, the further they fall. The occasional mavericks, thrown in by miracle, last a season and then disappear. The old Congressman, the veteran of genuine influence and power, is either one who is so stupid that the ideas of the mob are his own ideas, or one so far gone in charlatanry that he is unconscious of his shame. Notes on Democracy, Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
626. Contemplating suicide? Drink French polish - horrible death, beautiful finish.
627. Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. --Charles Caleb Colton
628. Content is a good thing; a thing the good alone can profit by. ---(J. SHERIDAN KNOWLES).
629. CONTENT is happiness.
630. Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold.
631. Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces.
632. Contention is better than loneliness.
633. Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
634. Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. --John Balguy
635. Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. --Socrates
636. Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty. The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.
637. Contentment is not to be found in having what you want, but rather wanting what you have
638. Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. --Thomas C. Haliburton
639. Contentment iz a kind ov moral laziness; if thare want ennything but kontentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an anlgeworm iz.
640. Contraceptives should be used on all conceiveable occasions.
641. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
642. Contrariwise, continued Tweedledee, if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!
643. Control your emotion or it will control you.--Chinese adage
644. Controversy - A battle in which spittle or ink replace the...cannon ball.
645. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men -and the fools know it.
646. Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of the genius.
647. Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
648. Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. --William Shakespeare
649. Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. --André Maurois
650. Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.-- Not Your Average Dictionary
651. Conversation: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
652. Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
653. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
654. Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. --Friedrich Nietzsche
655. Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.
656. Conway's Law: In any organization, there will always be one person who knows what's going on; this person must be fired.
657. Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother's. -- Andrei Codrescu
658. Cooke's Law: In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.
659. Cool words scald not the tongue.
660. Copy from one its plagiarism. Copy from two its research.
661. Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
662. Copying everybody else all the time, the monkey one day cut his throat.
663. Corner, side, centre.
664. Corollaries's Law: 1. Nobody whom you ask for help will see it.
665. Corollaries's Law: 2. The first person who stops by, whose advice you really don't want to hear, will see it immediately.
666. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a pipe bomb a rather drastic way of conducting birth control?
667. Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
668. Correspondence Corollary: An experiment may be considered a success if no more than half of your data must be discarded to obtain correspondence with your theory.
669. Corrugated iron is really groovy.
670. Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad. -- Henry Kissinger
671. Corrupt, adj.: In politics, holding an office of trust or profit.
672. Corrupt: In politics, holding an office of trust or profit.
673. Corruptio optimi pessima.-Corruption of best is worst.
674. Corruption begins at the top.
675. Corruption is not the No.1 priority of the Police Commissioner. His job is to enforce the law and fight crime.-
676. Cosmetics: A womans' means for keeping a man from reading between the lines.
677. Cosmic night, the sinking of manifestation into a state of rest, comes about when the forth-rushing expansive force of creation is interlocked and stabilized into equilibrium.
678. Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
679. Counsel breaks not the head.
680. Counsel is no command.
681. Count not four, except you have them in the wallet.
682. Count your enemies. If you haven't got any, chances are you haven't got any friends either.
683. Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
684. Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
685. Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
686. Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
687. Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
688. Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
689. Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
690. Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
691. Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
692. Courage in danger is half the battle.
693. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.--Gilbert K. Chesterton
694. Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
695. Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.--Eddie Rickenbacher
696. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
697. Courage is fear that said its prayers.
698. Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
699. Courage is grace under pressure.--Ernest Hemingway
700. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. (Ambrose Redmoon)