C.

Cabbage for cabbage, 13

Call me not fortunate till you see me buried, 236

Call me not olive till you see me gathered, 113, 236

Call not the devil, he will come fast enough unbidden, 382

Cap in hand never did any harm, 75

Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse, 374

Care brings on grey hairs, and age without years, 169

Caress your dog, and he’ll spoil your clothes, 338

Carry bread in your hood to Don Garcia’s wedding, 195

Caution is the mother of tender beer-glasses, 341

Cent-wisdom and dollar-folly (Penny wise and pound foolish), 302

Chairs sink and stools rise, 263

Change yourself, and fortune will change with you, 284

Charity begins at home, 306

Charity gives (or bestows) itself rich, covetousness hoards itself poor, 138

Charity well regulated begins at home, 226

Chastise a good child, that it may not grow bad, and a bad one, that it may not grow worse, 389

Chastise one that is worthless, and he will presently hate you, 208

Chastise the good and he will mend, chastise the bad and he will grow worse, 74, 272

Cheat me in the price and not in the goods, 221, 277

Cheating is more honourable than stealing, 136

Cheating is the chapman’s cart and plough, 136

Cheerful company shortens the miles, 149

Cheerfulness and good-will make labour light, 385

Cheese and bread make the cheeks red, 156

Cheese from the ewe, milk from the goat, butter from the cow, 245

Cheese is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night, 156

Cherries are bitter to the glutted blackbird, 3

Children and drunken men speak the truth, 397

Children and fools are prophets, 16

Children and fools speak the truth, 157, 230

Children are certain sorrow, but uncertain joy, 351

Children are the riches of the poor, 351

Children are what they are made, 34

Children married, cares increased, 278

Children tell in the highway what they hear by the fireside, 275

Choose a Brabant sheep, a Guelder ox, a Flemish capon, and a Friezeland cow, 335

Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight, 227

Chop, and you will have splinters, 379

Christians have no neighbours, 136

Christmas comes but once a year, 111

Christmas is talked of so long that it comes at last, 41

Claw me, and I’ll claw thee, 157, 167, 187, 331

Clay and lime conceal much evil, 204

Clothes make the man, 305

Coffee has two virtues, it is wet and warm, 330

Cold hand, a warm heart, 156

Colts by falling, and lads by losing, grow prudent, 242

Come fish, come frog, all goes into the basket (All’s fish that comes to the net), 255

Common fame is seldom to blame, 149

Common fame seldom lies (_An English proverb says_, Common fame is a common liar), 319

Common goods, no goods, 319

Communities begin by building their kitchen, 13

Company in distress makes trouble less, 51

Comparison is not proof, 14

Comparisons are odious, 14, 59, 104

Conceal not your secret from your friend, or you deserve to lose him, 263

Confidence begets confidence, 173

Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses, 105

Constant dropping wears the stone, 169

Contrivance is better than force, 38

Copper begets copper, and not (the labour of) men’s bones (_We say_, Money gets money), 208

Correction bringeth fruit, 339

Correction is good when administered in time, 348

Corsair against corsair, nothing to win but empty casks, 128, 210

Could a man foresee events he would never be poor, 52

Could everything be done twice, everything would be done better, 157

Counsel after action is like rain after harvest, 395

Counsel before action, 337

Counsel is nothing against love, 89

Counted sheep are eaten by the wolf, 9

Counterfeit coin passes current at night, 283

Coupled sheep drown one another, 319

Courtesy that is all on one side cannot last long, 14

Cover up the pot, there’s an eel in it, 306

Covetousness bursts the bag, 226

Covetousness is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with earth, 319

Coward against coward, the assailant conquers, 212

Cowards have no luck, 190

Cowards’ weapons neither cut nor pierce, 107

Crazy wheels run longest, 166

Creaking carts last the longest, 331

Credit is better than ready money, 150

Credit is dead, bad pay killed it, 89

Crooked iron may be straightened with a hammer, 383

Crooked wood burns quite as well as straight, 157

Crows do not peck out crows’ eyes, 273

Cunning has little honour, 384

Cunning men’s cloaks sometimes fall, 72

Cunning surpasses strength, 159

Curses are like processions: they return to whence they came, 108

Curses on accounts with relations, 254

Custom becomes law, 210

Custom is second nature, 105, 150, 226, 305, 319

Cut off the dog’s tail, he remains a dog, 127

Cut your coat according to your cloth, 337