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Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink.
Water, water everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Life is not life unless you make mistakes.
- Joan Collins

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.
- Joan Collins

[Experience is] how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
- Judy Collins

When you have nothing to say, say nothing
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
- Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
- Charles Caleb Colton

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
- Barry Commoner

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
- Condorcet

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later.
- Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

The best of my education has come from the public library...my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.
- Lesley Conger

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
- Jimmy Conners

First things first, second things never.
- Shirley Conran

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.
- Barbara Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rich Cook

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
- Alistair Cooke

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, it's nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there - that's disgrace.
- Edmund Vance Cooke

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
- Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929)
US sociologist

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
- Calvin Coolidge

Collecting more taxes that is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
- Calvin Coolidge

Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover.
- Susan Coolidge

Hope is the most treacherous of human fancies.
- James Fenimore Cooper

I've been failing for like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.
- Francis Ford Coppola

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.
- Pierre Corneille

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified, if he does it right.
- Bill Cosby

The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.
- Bryce Courtenay
From the book The Power Of One

The essence of man is imperfection.
- Norman Cousins(1915-1990)

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fastens his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
- Norman Cousins

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
- Norman Cousins
Anatomy of an Illness

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
- Norman Cousins
even when life seems hopeless, don't give up...it might not make sense now...and maybe it never will....but there is a reason for the madness

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
- Parks Cousins

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
- Malcolm Cowley

Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts.
- Coleman Cox

Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.
- Courtney Cox
Monica on 'Friends'

Not to decide is to decide.
- Harvey Cox

No man knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
- Mercelene Cox

No matter how much a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.
- John Craig

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
- Bruce Crampton

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.
- Frank Crane

Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.
- Frederick Crane

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!
- George W. Crane

I think women see me on the cover of magazines and think I never have a pimple or bags under my eyes. You have to realize that's after two hours of hair and makeup, plus retouching. Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
- Cindy Crawford

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
- Francis Marion Crawford

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
- Francis Marion Crawford

It is a good day to die! Strong hearts to the front, weak hearts to the rear!
- Crazy Horse
battle of the Little Big Horn

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
- David Cronenberg
Cronenberg on Cronenberg, ch. 1, 1992

Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
- A. J. Cronin

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
- Walter Cronkite

Oh...I listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.
- Bing Crosby

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- E. E. Cummings

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
- E. E. Cummings

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
- Will Cuppy (1884-1949)

Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.-
- John Cusack

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
- Harvey Cushing (1869-1939)

There is no data on the future.
- Laurel Cutler