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~~ 801 to 850 ~~

~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~


801. Cult: It just means not enough people to make a minority.

802. Cultivate happiness and it becomes a habit.

803. Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you. Elbert Hubbard

804. Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will bebenefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony.

805. Cultivation to the mind, is as necessary as food to the body.

806. Culture implies all that which gives the mind possession of its own powers; as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer.

807. Culture is one thing and varnish is another. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

808. Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

809. Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. --Henry Van Dyke

810. Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.

811. Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. --Jawaharlal Nehru

812. Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world. ---(MATTHEW ARNOLD).

813. Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. --Mahatma Gandhi

814. Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

815. Culture, with us, ends in headache. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

816. Cunning (skill) is no burden.

817. Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

818. Cunning has effect from the credulity of others.

819. Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

820. Cunning is the natural and universal defense of the weak against the violence of the strong.

821. Cunning leads to knavery. - It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. - Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

822. Cunning to wisdom is as an ape to man.

823. Cunning...is but the low mimic of wisdom.

824. Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. --Richard Whately

825. Curiosity is ill manners in another's house.

826. Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling. --Blaise Pascal

827. Curiosity killed a cat . . . the rest got smarter . . .

828. Curiosity killed the cat

829. Curmudgeon's Law: There is no virtue in consistency if you are

830. Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

831. Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. -- Vergil

832. Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot. --J. Bartlett

833. Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had. --Joseph Wood Krutch

834. Custom is second nature.

835. Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools. --Thomas Fuller

836. Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life. --Francis Bacon

837. Custom makes all things easy.

838. Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. --Robert Green Ingersoll

839. CUSTOM rules the law.

840. Custom without reason is but ancient error.

841. Cut not the BOUGH that thou standest upon.

842. Cut off a DOG's tail and he will be a dog still.

843. Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. --Robert Lynd

844. Cut your COAT according to your cloth.

845. Cutler Webster's Law: There are two sides to every argument, unless a person is personally involved, in which case there is only one.

846. Cutting remarks don't cut any ice.

847. Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog's tongue will kill the strongest man.

848. Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

849. Cynicism -- the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

850. Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. - Lillian Hellman


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