Great Throughts Treasury

"Children are poor men's riches."

"Children and fools tell the truth."

"Choose a wife to please yourself, not others."

"Children when they are little make parents fools, when they are great they make them mad."

"Christmas comes but once a year."

"Christmas in mud, Easter in snow."

"Cold hands, warm heart."

"Clothes do not make the man."

"Come with the wind, go with the water."

"Command your man and do it yourself."

"Complain about the house where the husband is the wife."

"Confess and be hanged."

"Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces."

"Content is more than a kingdom."

"Covetousness breaks the bag."

"Constant dropping wears away the stone."

"Creditors have better memories than debtors."

"Content is happiness."

"Crows will not pick out crows' eyes."

"Cross the stream where it is ebbest."

"Crooked logs make straight fires."

"Custom rules the law."

"Custom is a second nature."

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

"Cut not the bough that thou standest upon."

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

"Cut your coat according to your cloth."

"Dead dogs bite not."

"Dally not with women or money."

"Daughters and dead fish are no keeping wares."

"Death keeps no calendar."

"Death makes equal the high and low."

"Dead men don't bite."

"Deaths foreseen come not."

"Deeds are males, and words are females."

"Deeds, not words."

"Dicing, drabbing and drinking bring men to destruction."

"Did you ever hear an ass play on a harp?"

"Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies."

"Diamond cut diamond."

"Dirty water will quench fire."

"Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot."

"Divide and rule."

"Dirty linen should be washed at home."

"Distrust is the mother of safety."

"Disgraces are like cherries, one draws another."

"Do as the friar says, not as he does."

"Do as I say, not as I do."

"Do as you would be done by."

"Do as you may if you can't do as you would."