CANDLE
♠ My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night;But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends , It gives a lovely light ! - Edna St.Vincent Millsy
CAPACITY
♠ Not by age but the capacity is wisdom acquired – Titud Maccius Plautus
♠ Genius is an infinite capacity for taking Pains - Jane Ellice Hopkins
CARES
♠ Providence has given us hope and sleep it a compensation for the many cares of life – Voltaire
CHANGE
♠ Change your thoughts and you change your world - Norman Vincent Peale
♠ Things do not change; We change – Thoreau
♠ Progress is impossible without change; and those who can not change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw
CHARACTER
♠ Every man has three characters- that which has exhibits, that which he has , and that which he thinks he has – Alphonse Karr
♠ Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world – Goethe
♠ Character is long standing habit – Plutarch
♠ Character must be kept bright as well as clean – Lord Chesterfield
CHARITY
♠ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal – New testament
♠ Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself – Walt Whitman
♠ Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven – Henry Ward Beecher
♠ Charity begins at home, is the voice of the World – Sir Thomas Browne
♠ What we frankly give forever is our own – George Granville
♠ As the purse is emptied the heart is filled – Victor Hugo
♠ That Charity which longs to publish itself , ceases to be Charity – Hutoon
♠ This only is charity, to do all, all that we can – John Donne
CHARM
♠ Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul – Alexander Pope
CHEERFULNESS
♠ My religion of life is always to be cheerful – George Meredith
CHILD
♠ The child is father of the man – Wordsworth
♠ How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is ,To have a thankless child – Shakespeare
♠ I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child– Rabindranath Tagore
CHILDREN
♠ Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God – New Testament
CHILDHOOD
♠ The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day – Milton
♠ The child makes no distinction between what he wants and what is his? – Jean Paul
CHOICE
♠ A coward turns away, but a brave man’s choice is danger - Euripides
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♠ I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year – Charles Dickens
♠ Christianity taught man that love is worth more than intelligence –Jacques Maritain
♠ To be like Christ is to be a Christian – William Penn
CHRISTIANITY
CHURCH
♠ Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation – Daniel Defoe
♠ The nearer the church, the further from God – Bishop Andewes
CIRCUMSTANCE
♠ Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creature of man – Benjamin Disrael
CITIZEN
♠ If a man be gracious and courteous to stranger, it shows he is a citizen of the world – Francis Bacon
♠ I am a citizen, not of Athens of Greece, but of the world – Socrates
CIVILIZATION
♠ Civilization means a society based upon the opinion of civilians. It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the conditions of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made and independent courts of justice in which over long period those laws are maintained - Winston Churchill
♠ Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity towards a definite, coherent heterogeneity – Herbart Spencer
♠ We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cockcrowing and the morning star – Emerson
♠ Nations like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die –Mazzini
♠ The aim of civilization is to make politics superfluous and science and art indispensable – Arthur Schnitzler
♠ Civilization is the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment, and increase the capacity of service - Mahatma Gandhi
CLASSICS
♠ A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read – Mark Twain
♠ Books are always the better for not being read, Look at our Classic –George Bernard Shaw
CLEANLINESS
♠ God loves the clean - Holy Quran
♠ Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. “Cleanliness is indeed next to Godliness” – John Wesley
CLEVER
♠ The advantage of being clever is that it’s easy to play the fool. The opposite is much more difficult – Kurt Tucholsky
CLOTHES
♠ The clothes make the man – Latin Proverb
♠ Modesty died when clothes were born – Mark Twain
COLOUR
♠ Blue’s true, Yellow’s Jealous, Green’s forsaken, Red’s brazen, White’s love, And black is death – Anonymous
COMMON SENSE
♠ Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education – Victor Hugo
COMMUNISM
♠ The theory of communism may be summed up in one sentence; Abolish all private Property – Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels
♠ Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak, In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level of excellence – Proudhorn
♠ A communist is like a crocodile. When it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up – Wiston Churchill
COMPANIONSHIP
♠ Tell me the company and I will tell thee what thou art – Cervantes
CONFESSION
♠ Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at – Josh Billings
♠ It’s the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution – Oscar Wild
CONQUEROR
♠ I came, I saw, I conquered – Julius Caesar
CONSCIENSE
♠ There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience – French Proverb
♠ Conscience is a sacred sanctuary where God alone may enter as Judge – Lemennais
♠ Conscience is God’s presence in man – Swedenborg
♠ The only tyrant I accept in this world is the “still small voice” with me – Mahatma Gandhi
♠ Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm – Oscar Wilde
♠ Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution , Is sick lied o’er with the pale cast of thought –Shakespeare
CONSERVATIVE
♠ A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run– Eibert Hubbard
CONTENT
♠ When we have not what we like, we must like what we have – Bussy –Rabutin
CONTENTMENT
♠ All those who are contented with this life pass like a shadow and a dream, or wither like the flower of the field – Cervantes
CONVERSATION
♠ Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius – Gibbon
♠ Silence is one great art of Conversation – Hazlitt
♠ In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is Conversation. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which doesn’t warm you up – Montaigne
COOKS
♠ God sends meat and the devil sends cooks – Thomas Deloney
♠ We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books, But civilized man cannot live without cooks – Owen Meredith
CORRUPTION
♠ The more corrupt the state, the more law – Tacitus
COSMOPOLITAN
♠ Our Country is the world – our Countrymen are all mankind –William Loyd Garrison
♠ My Country is the world, and my religion is to do good – Thomas Paine
COUNTRY AND TOWN
♠ God made the country and man made the town – Cowper
COURAGE
♠He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life - Muhammed Ali
♠ A man of Courage is also full of faith – Cicero
COWARDS
♠ Cowards die many times before their death; The valiant never taste of death but once – Shakespeare
♠ He was a coward to the strong; He was a tyrant to the weak – Shelley
COURTESY
♠ The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it – Bovee
CRIME
♠ Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it – Buckle
♠ Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bear a cross for his crime; another a crown – Juvenal
CRITICISM
♠ Criticism is a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the World – Mathew Arnold
♠ Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics – S.T Coleridge
♠ Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art – Disraeli
♠ What a blessed thing it is that nature, When she invented manufactured and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left ! - Holmes
CROWD
♠ When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one – Friedrich Nietzsche
CROWN
♠ Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown – Shakespeare
CURIOSITY
♠ Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect – Samuel Johnson
♠ The secret of happiness is curiosity – Norman Douglas
CUSTOM
♠ Custom is lord of all mankind – Alexander Pushki
♠ Custom reconciles us to everything – Edmund Burke
CYNIC
♠ A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing –Oscar Wild
