Proverbs with the letter "C"
- Charity begins at home.
- Meaning: A person's first duty is to help and care for his own family.
- Cleanliness is next to godliness.
- Meaning: A clean body is just as important as a pure soul.
- Clear moon, frost soon.
- Meaning: If the atmosphere is clear, frost may form.
- Clohes don't make the man.
- Meaning: Appearances can be deceiving.
- Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
- Meaning: The valiant (the brave) take no account of possible danger, whereas cowards are constantly fearing the worst.
- Constant occupation prevents temptation.
- Meaning: When you work you avoid temptation.
- Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
- Meaning: Refers to a situation where both possibilities will lead to harm or blame.
- Dead men tell no tales.
- Meaning: A dead person cannot cause difficulties by revealing something that it would be preferable to conceal.
- Diamond cuts diamond.
- Meaning: Refers to two people equally matched in wit or cunning.
- Different strokes for different folks.
- Meaning: Someone prefers one thing; others, something different.
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
- Meaning: Hard work brings rewards.
- Discretion is the better part of valour.
- Meaning: It is useless to take unnecessary risks.
- Distance makes the heart grow fonder.
- Meaning: When you are separated from the person you love, your feelings are even stronger.
- Dogs of the same street bark alike.
- Meaning: People from the same background have the same behaviour.
- Don't bark if you can't bite.
- Meaning: Don't complain if you can't enforce your point of view.
- Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
- Meaning: Behave respectfully or deferentially to those who provide for you.
- Don't bite off more than you can chew.
- Meaning: Do not take on more responsibility than you can handle at any one time.
- Don't burn your bridges.
- Meaning: Do not act in such a way as to leave yourself no alternative or no opportunity to "retreat."
- Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
- Meaning: You must not be too confident that something will be successful.
- Don't cry over spilt milk.
- Meaning: Don't worry about things that have already happened.
- Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
- Meaning: Do not act to spite someone else if it is damaging to yourself.
- Don't have too many irons in the fire.
- Meaning: Do not take on more responsibility than you can handle.
- Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
- Meaning: Don't do something yourself which causes your own downfall.
- Don't judge a book by its cover.
- Meaning: Don't judge by appearances.
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
- Meaning: Do not look for faults in a gift.
- Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
- Meaning: Do not rest all your hopes on one eventuality; plan for several cases.
- Don't put the cart before the horse.
- Meaning: Do things in the correct order.
- Don't shut the barn door after the horse is gone.
- Meaning: Prepare for things to go wrong rather than worrying about them after the fact.
- Don't spit into the wind.
- Meaning: Don't take actions which you know will harm yourself or be futile.
- Don't spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar.
- Meaning: Don't jeopardize a project - especially a large one - by being miserly or cutting corners.
- Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater
- Meaning: Do not, in an attempt to remove something undesirable, lose things that are valuable.
- Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and you'll annoy the pig.
- Meaning: Don't go into a relationship expecting to change your partner, it doesn't work.
- Don't cross a bridge before you come to it.
- Meaning: Don't fret unnecessarily about future problems.
- Don't let procrastination eat your own clock.
- Meaning: Don't procrastinate most of the time as your chances and opportunities are wasted away.
- Dreams are not the ones which come when you sleep, but they are the ones which will not let you sleep.
- Meaning: Dreams in your sleep are different from the dreams of your future.
- Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
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Caution is the parent of safety.
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Cheats never prosper.
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Children and fools tell the truth.
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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.
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Christmas comes but once a year.
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Civility costs nothing.
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Cold hands, warm heart.
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Cometh the hour cometh the man.
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Comparisons are odious.
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Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.
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Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.
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Contraries are cured by contraries.
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Could everything be done twice it would be done better.
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Count you blessings.
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Crime doesn't pay.
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Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
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Curses are like chickens, they always come home.
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Custom is a tyrant.
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Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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Devil take the hindmost.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body.
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Do as I say, not as I do.
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Do as you would be done by.
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Do it today, tomorrow it may be against the law.
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
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Doctors make the worst patients.
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Don't ask God to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.
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Don't bring a knife to a gun fight.
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Don't cast your pearls before swine.
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Don't change horses in midstream.
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Don't cross the bridge till you come to it.
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Don't fall before you're pushed.
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Don't judge a man by the size of his hat, but by the angle of his tilt.
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Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
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Don't let the bastards grind you down.
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Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
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Don't meet troubles half-way.
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Don't mend what ain't broken.
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Don't put new wine into old bottles.
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Don't raise more Demons than you can lay down.
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Don't rock the boat.
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Don't spur a willing horse.
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Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.
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Don't throw pearls to swine.
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Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.
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Don't try to walk before you can crawl.
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Don't upset the apple-cart.
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Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
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Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom.
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