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~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~
702. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.--Mark Twain
703. Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.--Robert Anthony, Think, Think On and Think Again
704. Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
705. Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool).
706. Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
707. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.--Clare Boothe Luce
708. Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it bot, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear. Amelia Earhart
709. Courage is the price that love exacts for granting peace.--Amelia Earhart
710. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. (Winston Churchill)
711. Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess, of courage.
712. Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner. --Joseph Addison
713. Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
714. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.--Eddie Rickenbacker
715. Court cases are all solved with a surprise witness.
716. Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.--Henry Clay
717. Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, ;and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.--Michel de Montaigne
718. Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.
719. Courting and wooing bring dallying and doing.
720. Courtois's Rule: If people listened to themselves more often, they'd talk less.
721. Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
722. Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
723. Covenants without swords are but words.
724. Covetousness brings nothing home.
725. Covetousness bursts the sack.
726. Covetousness has for its mother unlawful desire, for its daughter injustice, and for its friend violence.
727. Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but greedy of honor and feeding on selfishness.
728. Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
729. Covetousness is the cause of sin.
730. Covetousness, by a greediness of getting more, deprives itself of the true end of getting; it loses the enjoyment of what it had got.
731. Coward - One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
732. Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.--Ernest Hemingway
733. Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
734. Cowards can never be moral.--Mahatma Gandhi
735. Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. --William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
736. Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
737. Cowards have dreams, brave men have visions.
738. Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
739. Craft against craft makes no living.
740. Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked. --Thomas Fuller
741. Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them.
742. Crazed maniacs have super-human strength.
743. Craziness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. -- Tom DeMarco
744. Crazy: a non-scientific term meaning that the person to whom one applies that label has a world picture different than the established one.
745. Cream pies are made to be thrown, never eaten.
746. Create constancy of purpose.
747. Creation is a drug I can't do without. --Cecil B. DeMille
748. Creation of woman from the rib of Man: She was not made from his head to top him; nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him; but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved.
749. Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause.
750. Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
751. Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early. -- George Will
752. Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that the right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago? --Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
753. Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven.
754. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."--Scott Adams
755. Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about dong it right, or better.
756. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.--Bill Moyers
757. Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.--Edward H. Land
758. Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?--Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
759. Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. --Clarence Day
760. Credit Card: What you use to buy today what you can't afford tomorrow while your still paying for yesterday.
761. Credit given if available...
762. Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired. --Walter Scott
763. Credit keeps the crown of the causeway. (= Is not ashamed to show itself.)
764. Creditors have better memories than debtors. --Proverb
765. Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. --Tryon Edwards
766. Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
767. Cricket is best described as organised loafing.--Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996
768. Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens within the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
769. Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
770. Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
771. Crime is a product of social excess. --Lenin, Vladimir
772. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law. --Louis D. Brandeis
773. Criminal Lawyer is a redundancy.
774. Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men. --George Bernard Shaw
775. Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. --Jawaharlal Nehru
776. Crises bring out the best in the best of us, and the worst in the worst of us. Anonymous
777. Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are. --Allan K. Chalmers
778. Critic, n.:A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobodytries to please him.
779. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
780. Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. --Samuel Johnson
781. Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down. --Dale Dauten, Newspaper columnist
782. Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
783. Critisism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without distroying his roots. (Frank A. Clark)
784. Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?--Socrates - last words
785. Crooked logs make straight fires.
786. Crooked wood is straightened with fire.
787. Cropp's Law: The amount of work done varies inversely with the amount of time spent in the office.
788. Cross the stream where it is ebbest (shallowest).
789. Crosses are ladders to heaven.
790. Crows are never the whiter for washing themselves.
791. CROWS will not pick out crows' eyes.
792. Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
793. Cruelty and fear shake hands together. --Honoré de Balzac
794. Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. --Robinson Jeffers
795. Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. --George Eliot
796. Crushing metal strikes, on this frightening night
797. Crystallized, as I lay here and rest
798. Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. When love is not madness, it is not love. Spanish Proverb
799. Cucullus non tacit monachum.-The cowl does not make the monk. Latin.
800. Cuisine is something like food but the portions are smaller and the prices are higher. If you happen to have French cuisine then the waiter will insult you as you are served.