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.
225. CHAMBER. The chamber of sickness is the chapel of devotion.
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 God puts in at the window.
232. CHASTISETH. He that chastiseth one, amendeth many.
Cheese it is a peevish elf, It digests all things but itself.
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. CHINK. So we have the chink, we'll bear the stink.
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.
If Christmas Day on a Monday be, A great winter that year you will see.
256. CHURCH. Where God hath His church the devil will have his chapel.
257. CHURCH. The nearer the church the farther from God.
258. CHURCHES. Pater-noster built churches, and Our Father pulls them down.
259. CIVIL WORDS. Civil words cost nothing, and go a long way.
262. CLERK. 'Tis the clerk makes the justice.
263. CLIMB. Climb not too high, lest the fall be the greater.