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But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Love that is not madness is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Albert Camus

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote

You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
Harry Caray

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
George Carlin

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
George Carlin

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
George Carlin

Electricity is really just organized lightning.
George Carlin

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
Jimmy Carter

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cather

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Cato

Nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Coco Chanel

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
Chevy Chase

Any idiot can face a crisis - its day-to-day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill

….the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

While there's life, there's hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank Howard Clark

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
Frank Howard Clark

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
Arthur C. Clarke

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
Paul Coffey

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Doug Collins

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
Calvin Coolidge

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
Francis Ford Coppola

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
Bill Cosby

When you become senile, you won't know it.
Bill Cosby

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby

All sports for all people.
Pierre de Coubertin

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
Hume Cronyn

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. Cummings