"Even today, well-brought up English girls are taught to boil all vegetables for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests comes without his teeth."  Calvin Trillin

"I was going to give you some fresh garden peas, but I couldn't find the can opener."  ?Jim Ungerfoist?  Herman

"If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen."  Unknown

"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."  Carl Sagan

"It is the sauce that distinguishes a good chef.  The saucier is a soloist in the orchestra of a great kitchen."  Fernand Point

It's stressful - cooking."  Jessica Simpson

"It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it."  John Kenneth Galbraith

"Nothing cements friendship like something cooked by a friend."  Adeline Yen Mah,  Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society

"The purpose of a cookery book is unmistakable.  Its object can conceivably be no other than to increase the happiness of mankind."  Joseph Conrad

"You just put things in boiling water and then take them out again after a long while."  Unknown

Cool

"Wind would get up in the morning just to blow through James Dean's hair."  Dot-TV ad

Coordination

"Without coordination, all is in vain."  Veritas ad

Copy

"They can copy what I do, but they cannot copy my mind.  So I leave them sweating and stealing, a year and a half behind."  Mark Twain

Corruption 

"Corruption never has been compulsory."  Robinson Jeffers

"Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many."  Eric Hoffer

Cost

"It's very expensive to be me."  Anna Nicole Smith

Cottage Cheese

"Cottage cheese is an abomination in the sight of God and man."  Simon Brett, Murder in the Museum: A Fethering Mystery (Brett, Simon. Fethering Mystery.)

Countess

"I am always cautious with a countess."  Alan Vanneman,  Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara

Courage 

"Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."  David Ben-Gurion

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms.  It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."  Eddie Rickenbacker

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."  Aristotle

"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."  Brendan Francis Behan

"Courage isn't courage unless there's something at stake."  Leonard Pitts, Jr

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads."  Erica Jong

"Fortune befriends the bold."  John Dryden

"He who loses wealth loses much: he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage loses all."  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"I'd rather give my life than be afraid  to give it."  Lyndon B. Johnson

"It is a mistake to think of courage as something you show to others.  True courage is something you show to yourself."  Eliot Pattison, The Skull Mantra

"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."  Conte Vittorio Alfieri

"People like Diana [Princess of Wales] show us all that it doesn't matter how much you have or what benefits you are born with, your world can still be restricted by unhappiness and ill health. It still takes courage to recognize these limitations, to confront them and change your life."  Stephen Twigg in Andrew Morten's Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

"The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path.  And that takes courage."  Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave (Stewart, Mary,...

"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage."  Joseph Conrad

"This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends."  Euripides

"To each of you, courage."  Dan Rather

"When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions.  When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises."  Franklin P. Adams

"Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues."  Maya Angelou

Courtesy

"I have yet to encounter an individual who was offended because someone was polite or courteous to him."  Zig Ziglar

"In all affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike the deepest to the grateful and appreciative heart."  Henry Clay

"There is always time for courtesy."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courtship

"Cousins are like brothers and sisters who live someplace else."  Jeff and bill Keane,   Family Circus

Cow

"Cows never wrinkle."  Gilmore Girls

"Everybody ought to be warned about cows."  Lauren Willig,  The Seduction of the Crimson Rose

"I hate cows."  Paris Hilton

"When cows start getting together, it can't be good."  South Park

Cracker Jacks™

"Cracker jacks don't count as junk food because they're corn and peanuts, which we know to be high in nutrition.  And they have a prize inside."  Janet Evanovich,  Hard Eight

Hart Crane

"Most people think he did a Brodie from the Brooklyn Bridge cause he wrote about it, but it was from a steamer ship on his way back from Mexico.  Truth is, most people didn't think about Hart Crane at all."

Creativity

"Am I thus left with no recourse but to scour the Internet for lame joke sites, hoping that some spark of creativity has wormed its way into the morass of mediocrity that sucks dry the spirits of the keyboard bound?"  Jack Duggan

"Creation is the greatest power."  J. R. R. Tolkien

Crime

Cruelty

"In the civilized galaxy, cruelty is the greatest of all crimes. ... Of course life always involves some suffering, and there are times when painful things must be done for life to continue.  But an intelligent being who takes pleasure in causing pain to others - well, such a being is seriously bent. ... Empathy is the heart of civilization. ... The ability to understand what another feels. ... It is the trait that lifts us above the animals. ... An intelligent being who lacks empathy is a threat to the social order.  Not caring what pain it causes, it may do damage beyond estimation.  Causing needless suffering is a sickness, and those who do so are forever outside our law."  Bruce Colville,  Aliens Ate My Homework

Cruise Line Details

"I always cry at sailings.  They're so romantic."  Out to Sea 

If you pay a little extra, your cabin attendant will come around and stuff food into your mouth while you sleep."  Dave Barry