Authors by Name: C
Herb Caen (2)
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
203 thoughts regarding society
John Cage (4)
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
198 quotes about business
Taylor Caldwell (10)
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
323 other views about death
Cab Calloway (2)
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
345 quotes about happiness
Jeanne Calment (3)
Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
323 thoughts about death
John Calvin (7)
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
240 other wisdom & wit regarding faith
John Cameron (6)
I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.
91 more thoughts relating to health
Joseph Campbell (18)
Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.
13 quotes regarding computers
Alastair Campbell (5)
My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.
38 other quotes about fatherhood
Albert Camus (52)
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
233 other quotes regarding being alone
Elias Canetti (6)
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
323 other sayings regarding death
George Canning (3)
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
233 views regarding being alone
Eddie Cantor (2)
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
180 thoughts about marriage
Robert Capa (2)
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
216 more views regarding hope
Karel Capek (2)
Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
199 other thoughts about freedom
Al Capp (4)
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
425 thoughts regarding art
Thomas Carlyle (58)
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
233 quotes about being alone
Stokely Carmichael (8)
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
161 other sayings about courage
Marcel Carne (2)
It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.
112 other wisdom & wit about respect
Andrew Carnegie (13)
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
249 quotes relating to aging
Dale Carnegie (21)
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
44 wisdom & wit about attitudes
Alexis Carrel (5)
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
218 more views about beauty
Lewis Carroll (7)
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
24 more quotes regarding birthday
Angela Carter (3)
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
249 more sayings about aging
Joyce Cary (4)
The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.
32 quotes about cars
Pablo Casals (3)
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
425 other thoughts about art
Giacomo Casanova (4)
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
161 more quotes regarding courage
Robert Casey (5)
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
41 quotes about the law
Carlos Castaneda (2)
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
262 quotes relating to knowledge
Carlos Castenada (2)
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
262 other views regarding knowledge
Willa Cather (9)
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
249 quotes about aging
Catherine the Great (6)
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
198 other quotes about business
Richard Cecil (2)
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
262 other quotes about knowledge
Paul Cezanne (23)
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
249 other quotes regarding aging
Joshua Chamberlain (2)
We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
166 sayings about the future
Oswald Chambers (5)
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
15 quotes regarding amazing
Nicolas Chamfort (11)
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
249 other quotes regarding aging
Chanakya (13)
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
218 sayings about beauty
Raymond Chandler (8)
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
249 quotes about aging
William Ellery Channing (11)
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
174 sayings relating to experience
Edwin Hubbel Chapin (5)
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
364 quotes about best
Charlie Chaplin (11)
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
233 quotes about being alone
John Jay Chapman (3)
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
184 other sayings regarding government
Geoffrey Chaucer (6)
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
249 other views about aging
Cesar Chavez (3)
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
79 more quotes about food
John Cheever (9)
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
233 quotes about being alone
Anton Chekhov (19)
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
233 quotes about being alone
Gilbert K. Chesterton (52)
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
62 thoughts regarding architecture
Lydia M. Child (3)
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
249 other sayings about aging
Agatha Christie (4)
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
249 more sayings about aging
Winston Churchill (74)
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
44 sayings relating to attitudes
John Ciardi (6)
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
425 more wisdom & wit regarding art
Emile M. Cioran (18)
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
323 quotes relating to death
James Freeman Clarke (4)
Conscience is the root of all true courage if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
161 quotes about courage
John Clayton (4)
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
233 thoughts about being alone
Eldridge Cleaver (2)
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
251 quotes about history
Georges Clemenceau (2)
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
174 other views about experience
Grover Cleveland (6)
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
184 quotes about government
Patsy Cline (4)
Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!
32 wisdom & wit about cars
Irvin S. Cobb (3)
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
249 thoughts about aging
William Cobbett (2)
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
345 sayings about happiness
Richard Cobden (3)
But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
345 wisdom & wit about happiness
Jacqueline Cochran (3)
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
323 views relating to death
Jean Cocteau (24)
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
425 quotes regarding art
Edward Coke (2)
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
131 quotes about home
Frank Moore Colby (3)
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
58 sayings regarding anger
Nat King Cole (2)
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
210 sayings about education
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (24)
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
62 quotes regarding architecture
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (9)
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
249 more wisdom & wit about aging
Jeremy Collier (4)
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
161 thoughts relating to courage
Robert Collier (9)
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
25 quotes relating to environmental
Michael Collins (2)
I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
233 thoughts about being alone
Charles Caleb Colton (30)
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
233 more quotes regarding being alone
Christopher Columbus (5)
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
278 wisdom & wit regarding fear
Arthur Holly Compton (2)
My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
44 more thoughts about attitudes
William Congreve (10)
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
58 more wisdom & wit relating to anger
Cyril Connolly (15)
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
87 quotes about family
Joseph Conrad (14)
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
233 quotes regarding being alone
Charles Horton Cooley (5)
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
425 other sayings about art
Calvin Coolidge (17)
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
198 thoughts relating to business
Anna Julia Cooper (2)
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
199 views about freedom
Nicolaus Copernicus (3)
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
251 quotes regarding history
Barry Cornwall (3)
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
218 more thoughts about beauty
Gustave Courbet (2)
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
218 more quotes relating to beauty
Jacques Yves Cousteau (6)
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
345 quotes regarding happiness
Noel Coward (3)
The higher the building the lower the morals.
62 more thoughts regarding architecture
William Cowper (12)
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
175 wisdom & wit regarding change
Frank Crane (2)
A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
428 wisdom & wit about being good
Quentin Crisp (8)
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
175 thoughts about change
Davy Crockett (5)
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
142 more thoughts relating to failure
Herbert Croly (2)
Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
240 wisdom & wit regarding faith
Aleister Crowley (4)
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
240 more wisdom & wit regarding faith
e. e. cummings (13)
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
161 sayings about courage
Imogen Cunningham (2)
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
213 other views about science
Will Cuppy (5)
Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
131 more quotes regarding home
Marie Curie (4)
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
278 other sayings regarding fear
George William Curtis (6)
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
58 more wisdom & wit about anger
Cyril Cusack (3)
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
247 views about religion