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Funny Sayings
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
A candle, no matter how bright it shines, cannot illumine tomorrow.
A canoe does not know who is king: when it turns over, everyone gets wet.
A careful foot can step anywhere.
A carpenter is known by his chips.
A carpenter may lend his wife but not his tools.
A castle is not overthrown by precaution.
A cat always knows whose meat it eats.
A cat contained becomes a lion.
A cat has nine lives, as the onion seven skins.
A cat is a lion to mouse.
A cat likes fish, but hates to wet its paws.
A cat may go to a monastery, but she still remains a cat.
A cat that licks the spit is not to be trusted with roast meat.
A cat that mews much catches but few mice.
A cautious man is worth two.
A cemetery never refuses the dead.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
A chameleon does not leave one tree until it is sure of another.
A change is as good as a rest.
A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
A chaste wife influences her husband by obeying him.
A chattering bird builds no nest.
A cheerful wife is the joy of life.
A cherry year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year.
A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches.
A chicken is hatched even from such a well-sealed thing as an egg.
A child at twenty is an ass at twenty and one.
A child comes, a young man stays, an old man goes.
A child cries for attention, an old man because of grief.
A child is a certain worry and an uncertain joy.
A child may have as many clothes as his father, but not as many rags.
A child may have too much of his mother’s blessing.
A child must creep until it learns to walk.
A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.
A child turns the whole household on its head.
A child will behave as he has been taught.
A child’s back must be bent early.
A child’s fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which her mother puts into her palm.
A child’s hand and a pig’s trough must always be full.
A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark.
A child’s play does not last long.
A child’s sorrow is short-lived.
A child’s tear rends the heavens.
