186. Cake. You cannot eat your cake and have it.
187. Calm sea. In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
188. Calm weather. Calm weather in June sets corn in tune.
189. Can. A man can do more than he can.
190. Candle. Burn not your candle at both ends at once.
191. Candlemas. On Candlemas day you must have half your straw and half your hay.
192. Candlemas.
If Candlemas day be fair and bright,
Winter will have another flight;
If on Candlemas day it be shower and rain,
Winter is gone, and will not come again.
193. Candlemas.
When Candlemas day is come and gone,
The snow lies on a hot stone.
194. Candlemas day.
The hind had as lief see his wife on the bier,
As Candlemas day should be pleasant and clear.
195. Candlemas day. On Candlemas day throw candle and candle-stick away.
196. Cap. If the cap fit, wear it.
197. Captain. Be captain of your own ship.
198. Carcase. Where the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
199. Cards. Many can pack the cards that cannot play.
200. Care. Care's no cure.
201. Care. Care will kill a cat.
202. Care. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.
203. Care not. "Care not," would have.
204. Carry. Don't run away with more than you can carry.
205. Carrying coals. Like carrying coals to Newcastle.
206. Castles. Tis easy to build castles in the air.
207. Cash. Rolling in cash he can't use, like a cat in a corn-bin.
208. Castle. An Englishman's house is his castle.
209. Cat.
210. Cat. A cat may look at a king.
211. Cat. The cat is hungry when a crust contents her.
212. Cat. The cat sees not the mouse ever.
213. Cats. I'll keep no more cats than will catch mice.
214. Cat. A cat has nine lives, yet care will kill a cat.
215. Cat. When the cat winketh, little wots the mouse what the cat thinketh.
216. Cat. Though the cat winks awhile, yet sure she is not blind.
217. Cat. A cat loves fish, but she's loth to wet her feet.
218. Catch. Catch that catch may.
219. Cause. It's a bad cause that none dare speak in.
220. Caution. Those are wise who learn caution from their own experience; but those are wiser who learn it from the experience of others.
221. Certain. There is nothing certain in this life but death and taxes!
222. Certainty. Never quit certainty for hope.
223. Chaff. I'm too old a bird to be caught by chaff.
224. Chalk. As like as chalk and cheese.
225. Chamber. The chamber of sickness is the chapel of devotion.
226. Chance. Look to the main chance.
227. Chance.
He that leaves certainty and sticks to chance,
When fools pipe he may dance.
228. Chanceth. It chanceth in an hour that comes not in seven years.
229. Change. Change of pasture makes fat calves.
230. Charitable. The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.
231. Charity. Charity begins at home.
232. Chastiseth. He that chastiseth one, amendeth many.
233. Cheese.
Cheese it is a peevish elf,
It digests all things but itself.
234. Cheese. After cheese comes nothing.
235. Cheese.
If you would have a good cheese, and have'n old,
You must turn'n seven times before he is cold.
236. Cherry. A cherry year, a merry year.
237. Chickens. Count not your chickens before they are hatched.
238. Chiding. Woe to the house where there is no chiding.
239. Child. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
240. Child. A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
241. Child's pig. Child's pig, but father's bacon.
242. Children. Children and fools speak the truth.
243. Children. Children and fools have merry lives.
244. Children. Children and chickens must be always picking.
245. Children. Children are poor men's riches.
246. Children. Children should hear, see, and say nothing.
247. Children. When children stand quiet they have done some harm.
248. Children. Children are certain cares, but very uncertain comforts.
249. Children. Children suck the mother when they are young, and the father when they are old.
250. Chink. So we have the chink, we'll bear the stink.
251. Chip. A chip of the old block.
252. Christmas. Christmas comes but once a year.
253. Christmas. Green Christmas, white Easter.
254. Christmas. They talk of Christmas so long that it comes.
255. Christmas Day.
If Christmas Day on a Monday be,
A great winter that year you will see.
256. Church. Where God hath His church the devil will have his chapel.
257. Church. The nearer the church the farther from God.
258. Churches. Pater-noster built churches, and Our Father pulls them down.
259. Civil words. Civil words cost nothing, and go a long way.
260. Claw. Claw me, and I will claw you.
261. Clear. As clear as mud.
262. Clerk. 'Tis the clerk makes the justice.
263. Climb. Climb not too high, lest the fall be the greater.
264. Climbed. Who never climbed, never fell.
265. Climbers. Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
266. Cloak. Have not the cloak to make when it begins to rain.
267. Cloak. Though the sun shines, leave not your cloak at home.
268. Clock. The clock goes as it pleases the clerk.
269. Close mouth. A close mouth catcheth no flies.
270. Clothes. It is good keeping his clothes who is going to swim.
271. Cloud. Every cloud hath a silver lining.
272. Clouds. Clouds that the sun builds up darken him.
273. Clouds.
When the clouds are on the hills,
They'll come down by the mills.
274. Clouds. After clouds comes clear weather.
275. Cloudy. Cloudy mornings turn to clear evenings.
276. Clover. He is in clover.
277. Clown. Even a clown clings to his cloak when it rains.
278. Coat. Cut your coat according to your cloth.
279. Coat. It's not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.
280. Cobble.
They that can cobble and clout,
Shall have work when others go without.
281. Cobbler. Let not the cobbler go beyond his last.
282. Cobbler's wife. Who goes worse shod than the cobbler's wife?
283. Cock.
If the cock moult before the hen,
We shall have weather thick and thin;
But if the hen moult before the cock,
We shall have weather hard as a block.
284. Cock. The cock crows and the hen goes.
285. Cock. Every cock is proud on his own dunghill.
286. Coin. Where coin's not common, commons must be scant.
287. Coin. Much coin much care.
288. Cold April. A cold April a barn will fill.
289. Cold May.
A cold May and a windy
Makes a full barn and a findy.
290. Coldest flint. In the coldest flint there is hot fire.
291. Colours. It's an ill battle where the devil carries the colours.
292. Colt. When you ride a young colt see your saddle be well girt.
293. Company. Two's company and three's none.
294. Company. Tell me what company you keep, and I will tell you who you are.
295. Company. It's good to have company in trouble.
296. Company.
Company in distress,
Makes trouble less.
297. Companion. A merry companion on the road is as good as a nag.
298. Companion. There's no companion like a penny.
299. Comparisons. Comparisons are odious.
300. Complain. They complain wrongfully of the sea, who twice suffer shipwreck.
301. Complexion. Cold of complexion, good of condition.
302. Conceals. A woman conceals what she knows not.
303. Confession. A generous confession disarms slander.
304. Confession. Confession of a fault makes half amends for it.
305. Confession. Open confession is good for the soul.
306. Conquest. It is no small conquest to overcome yourself.
307. Conscience. A clear conscience is a sure card.
308. Constant dropping. Constant dropping wears the stone.
309. Consumed. When all is consumed repentance comes too late.
310. Content. Content is the true philosopher's stone.
311. Contented. A contented mind is a continual feast.
312. Contented. He that hath nothing is not contented.
313. Contented. He may well be contented who needs neither borrow nor flatter.
314. Contented. People are sometimes better contented full than fasting.
315. Contentment. The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.
316. Corn.
Look at your corn in May,
You'll come weeping away;
Look at the same in June
You'll come home in another tune.
317. Corn. Corn is cleansed with the wind, and the soul with chastening.
318. Cottage. I'll not change a cottage in possession for a kingdom in reversion.
319. Counsel. Counsel is never out of date.
320. Counsels. Counsels in wine seldom prosper.
321. Counsel. In wiving and thriving men should take counsel of all the world.
322. Counsel. Three may keep counsel, if two be away.
323. Counselled. He that will not be counselled cannot be helped.
324. Count. Count not your chickens before they be hatched.
325. Country. In every country the sun riseth in the morning.
326. Country. You must go into the country to hear what news at London.
327. Couple. Every couple is not a pair.
328. Court. A friend at court is better than a penny in the purse.
329. Court. Far from court, far from care.
330. Courts. Courts have no almanacks.
331. Courtesy. Less of your courtesy, and more of your purse.
332. Courtesy. Courtesy on one side never lasts long.
333. Courtship. Men dream in courtship but in wedlock wake.
334. Cousin. Call me cousin; but cozen me not.
335. Coverlet. Stretch your legs according to your coverlet.
336. Covers. He covers me with his wings, and bites me with his bill.
337. Covet. Covet nothing over much.
338. Covetousness. Covetousness brings nothing home.
339. Cow. Many a good cow hath had a bad calf.
340. Cow. Look to the cow, and the sow, and the wheat mow, and all will be well enow.
341. Cowards. Cowards are always cruel.
342. Cowardice. Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen.
343. Crabs. The greatest crabs are not always the best meat.
344. Crack. He must crack the nut that would eat the kernel.
345. Craft. Craft bringeth nothing home.
346. Crafts. Of all crafts, to be an honest man is the master-craft.
347. Crafty. Crafty evasions save not the truth.
348. Crazy ship. To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
349. Creaking gate. A creaking gate hangs longest on its hinges.
350. Creaks. The worst wheel of a cart creaks most.
351. Credit. Credit lost is a Venice glass broken.
352. Creditors. Creditors have better memories than debtors.
353. Creep. First creep and then go.
354. Critics. Critics are like brushers of other men's clothes.
355. Crooked. A crooked tree will have a crooked shadow.
356. Crooked. Crooked logs make straight fires.
357. Cross. No cross, no crown.
358. Cross. Every cross has its inscription.
359. Crosses. Crosses are ladders for getting to heaven.
360. Crosses. Crosses are ladders that lead to heaven.
361. Crow. The crow thinks her own bird fairest.
362. Crow. A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often.
363. Crows. It never goes well when the hen crows.
364. Cruelty. Cruelty is a tyrant always attended by fear.
365. Cruelty. Cruelty is a devil's delight.
366. Crumbs. Where are the crumbs there are the chickens.
367. Cry. Don't cry out before you're hurt.
368. Cry. Great cry and little wool.
369. Cuckoo.
When the cuckoo comes to the bare thorn,
Sell your cow and buy your corn,
But when she comes to a full bit,
Sell your corn, and buy your sheep.
370. Cured. What cannot be cured must be endured.
371. Curses. Curses are like chickens, they come home to roost.
372. Custom. Custom is second nature.
373. Custom. Once a use and ever a custom.
374. Custom. Custom makes anything easy.
375. Custom (bad). A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.
376. Cut. Cut and come again.
377. Cut. No cut like unkindness.
378. Cut. I had not cut my wise teeth.
379. Cuts. Desperate cuts must have desperate cures.
