Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases Part 5

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 G.o.d 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. c.h.i.n.k. So we have the c.h.i.n.k, 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 G.o.d hath His church the devil will have his chapel.

257. CHURCH. The nearer the church the farther from G.o.d.

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.