A  B  C   D   E   F   G   H   K  L  M   O  R   S   T   W Call after - Name someone after somebody else Call back - Return a phonecall Call for - Demand - Go to collect something - Telephone for something - Go and collect someone to take them out - Require Call forth - Make something happen Call in - Get someone to come and do a job - Stop and visit Call off - Cancel - Order someone to stop attacking Call on - Ask for help - Visit - Challenge - Ask someone to do something, especially to speak in public. (Formal) Call up - Summon someone for military service - Telephone Calm down - Stop being angry or emotionally excited Cancel out - Have an opposite effect on something that has happened, taking things back to the beginning Care for - Like Carried away - Get so emotional that you lose control Carry forward - Include a figure in a later calculation - Make something progress Carry off - Win, succeed - Die of a disease Carry on - Continue Carry on with - Have an affair Carry out - Perform a task - Food bought from a restaurant to take away Carry over - Continue past a certain point Carry through - Complete successfully Cart off - Take someone away, usually under arrest or to prison - Take something away, especially if stealing or without permission Cash in - Convert shares, bonds, casino chips, etc, into money Cash in on - Benefit or make money on something, especially if done unfairly Cash out - Illegally access a bank account or credit card and steal money Cash up - Count all the money taken in a shop or business at the end of the day Catch on - Become popular - Finally understand what is going on Catch up - Get work, etc, up to date. Cater for - To provide what is necessary Cater to - To provide what is needed, often seen negatively Cave in - Collapse - Stop resisting or refusing Chalk out - To cut a line of cocaine Chalk up - To achieve something good Chalk up to - Explain the reason for a problem Chance upon - Find something by accident Change over - Change a system Charge up - Put electricity into a battery Charge with - Accuse somebody of a crime Chase off - Force a person to leave or go away Chase up - Ensure that someone remembers to do something Chat up - Talk to someone you are sexually interested in to get them interested in you Cheat on - Be sexually unfaithful Cheat out of - Get money from someone under false pretences Check by - Visit a place to check something Check in - Register on arriving at a hotel or at the airport Check into - Register on arriving at a hotel or at the airport Check off - Mark something on a list as done Check out - Pay the bill when leaving a hotel - Die Check out of - Settle up and pay before leaving a hotel Check over - Check something very carefully Cheer on - Encourage Cheer up - Be less unhappy Chew on - Thinks about something carefully before deciding Chew out - Criticize someone angrily Chew over - Think about an issue Chew up - Cut into small pieces with your teeth - Damage something inside a machine Chicken out - Be too afraid to do something Chill out - Relax Chime in - Contribute to a discussion Chip away at - Gradually reduce something to make it less powerful, effective, etc Chip in - Contribute some money - Contribute to a discussion Choose up - Form groups or teams - Form groups or teams Chop down - Fell or cut down a tree Chop up - Cut into small pieces Chuck away - Dispose of something you no longer need or want Chuck in - Quit something - Make a comment Chuck out - Dispose of something you no longer need or want Chuck up - Vomit, be sick - Quit something Churn out - Produce, usually quickly or in large amounts without much regard to quality Clag up - Make something sticky Clam up - Be quiet, refuse to speak Clamp down on - Restrict or try to stop something Claw back - Get money back - Retake possession with difficulty Clean out - Tidy up thoroughly and throw away unwanted things. - Cause someone to spend all their money Clean up - Tidy and clean Clear away - Leave a place - Remove or tidy Clear off - Leave somewhere quickly Clear out - Tidy up thoroughly and throw away unwanted stuff. - Leave somewhere Clear up - Cure or recover from an infection - Tidy up - Explain - Improve (weather) Click through - Open an advertisement on the Internet Climb down - Accept that you are wrong and change your position Clog up - Block, slow movement right down Close down - Close a shop, branch or business permanently - Stop an opponent being a challenge Close in - Surround, envelop - Approach, get near Close in on - Get near someone Close in upon - Get near someone Close off - Block a place to stop people entering Close on - Get nearer Close out - Bring something to an end - Close or stop using - Ignore, exclude Close up - Completely close something - Join together - Move closer together Cloud over - Get very cloudy Clown about - Behave stupidly or waste time Clown around - Behave stupidly or waste time Cock up - Ruin or spoil something Colour (Color) up - Blush Come about - Happen, occur Come across - Find by accident - Agree to have sex with someone - The way other people see you Come apart - Break into pieces Come before - Appear in court charged with a crime or offence Come by - Visit - Acquire Come down - Rain - Travel Come down on - Criticise heavily Come down with - Fall ill Come forth - Appear Come forth with - Provide information Come from - Country or town where you were born Come in - Arrive for flights - Place or ranking in a competition, etc. - Receive news Come into - Be important or relevant - Inherit Come into use - Start being used Come off - When something breaks off - Be successful Come off it - I don't believe what you're saying; used as an imperative Come on - Encouragement - Start an illness - Start functioning (machines, etc) Come out - A secret is revealed - Be published or otherwise available to the public - Disappear when washed - Let people know that you are lesbian or gay - When the sun appears Come out in - Have a rash or similar skin problem Come out with - Make something available - Say something publicly and unexpectedly Come over - Feel strange Come round - Become conscious, wake up from anaesthetic - Change your opinion Come through - Arrive (messages and information) - Communicate an emotion - Produce a result Come through with - Provide something needed Come to - Become conscious, wake up from anaesthetic - Result in Come up - Appear - Rise (the sun) Come up against - Encounter problems or difficulties Come up with - Think of a solution, excuse, etc. Come upon - Find by chance Conjure up - Create a picture or memory in someone's mind - Create something without many resources Conk out - Fall fast asleep - Suddenly breakdown or stop working Contract in - Become involved or committed to something Contract out - Give a contract for a service outside the company you work for Contract out of - Formally leave and agreement Cool down - Get cooler - Become calm Coop up - Confine in a small area Cop it - Get into trouble Cop off - Leave work or school early - Kiss, pet or have sex with someone Cop out - Choose an easy alternative Cotton on - To work out the truth Could do with - Need or want something Count in - Include or involve Count on - Depend, rely Count out - Exclude Count up - Add Cozy up - Make yourself comfortable Cozy up to - Make yourself popular with someone Crack down on - Use more authority than usual Crack on - Continue doing something with energy Crack up - Have a nervous breakdown - Have bad reception on a mobile phone - Burst out laughing - Damage a car badly Crank out - Produce a lot of something fast Crank up - Inject non-medical drugs - Start a machine, originally with a handle - Increase, make something bigger Crash out - Sleep at someone's house because you are too tired, drunk, etc. to leave - Fall asleep Creep in - Start to be noticeable - Get included despite attempts to keep it or them out Creep into - Become noticeable in something Creep out - make someone feel worried or uneasy Creep out on - To do the same activity for a very long time Creep over - Start to have a negative feeling Creep up on - Approach without someone realising Crop up - Appear unexpectedly Cross off - Delete, remove from a list Cross out - Put as line through some writing to show it is wrong Crumb down - Clear a table in a restaurant Cry off - To cancel an arrangement Cry out - Shout because you are in pain Cut across - Go across a pace rather than around it to make the journey quicker - Go across a pace rather than around it to make the journey quicker - Affect people of different groups, classes, etc Cut back - Reduce Cut back on - Reduce expenditure Cut down - Consume less - Shoot - Reduce a vertical thing to ground level by cutting - Cut something from a high position Cut down on - Reduce Cut in - Start functioning - Drive in front of another vehicle without warning - Interrupt - Include someone in a deal that makes money - Mix fat and flour until the combine Cut it out - Stop your unfair or unreasonable behaviour Cut off - Disconnect - Isolate or make inaccessible Cut out - Exclude - When an engine or motor stops - Cut a picture or similar from a magazine, etc Cut out on - Let down, snub Cut up - Cut into smaller pieces - Drive into a neighbouring lane, directly in front of another vehicle - Upset - Have a lot of small injuries . He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. Confucius I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. Edith Sitwell  Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. Jules Renard Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. Madam Guizot I am no more humble than my talents require. Oscar Levant If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. Ted Turner Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. Kate Reid I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. Dorothy Day I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke Strong reasons make strong actions. William Shakespeare Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. John Wanamaker You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. Norman Douglas Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. Vilhjalmur Stefansson Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. Aesop It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. Anne Tyler People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly. Brendan Francis Ask advice only of your equals. Danish Proverb Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. English Proverb Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. Erica Jong I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. G. K. Chesterton Never give advice unless asked. German Proverb Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. Gordon R. Dickson The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. Hannah Whitall Smith I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. Harry S Truman   Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. Sidney J. Harris In giving advice, seek to help, not please your friend. Solon Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. Spanish Proverb Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. Benjamin Franklin To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Bernard M. Baruch   Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. Betty Friedan There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. Carol Matthau Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. Cyril Connolly The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. Doris Lessing The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. Doug Larson Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. Ellen Glasgow The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. Frank Lloyd Wright Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. George Burns   I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. George Burns   About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. Gloria Pitzer   Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. Groucho Marx The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. H. L. Mencken . My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. Benjamin Disraeli   It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. Charles Baudelaire Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. Cullen Hightower We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. Lyndon B. Johnson I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. Marshall McLuhan If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong. Mo Udall Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. Oscar Wilde The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. Walter Bagehot When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. William Wrigley Jr. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. Arnold Toynbee  There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. Bill Clinton   America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. Bobcat Goldthwaite There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious. Bono There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969) The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. Frank Zappa England and America are two countries separated by a common language. George Bernard Shaw America is a young country with an old mentality. George Santayana America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory. George W. Bush America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. George W. Bush America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders. George W. Bush In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is. Gertrude Stein   What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them. Henry Ford II This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do. Jack Kerouac In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything. Jeffery F. Chamberlain America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. Judith Martin, The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. King Edward VIII Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. Cherie Carter-Scott When anger rises, think of the consequences. Confucius If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. Epictetus Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last. Greg Evans Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Henry Ward Beecher Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. Laurence J. Peter Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. Malcolm X I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry. Maxine Waters My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. Cathy Ladman He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument. Chinese Proverb I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. Dave Barry Use soft words and hard arguments. English Proverb The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. Friedrich Nietzsche   The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. G. K. Chesterton No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. Jascha Heifetz If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself. Joseph Farrell Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Josh Billings Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. Louis D. Brandeis Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. Oscar Wilde It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. Pierre Beaumarchais In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth. Publilius Syrus The argument is at an end. Saint Augustine It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. William G. McAdoo With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. William Lloyd Garrison For they are yet ear-kissing arguments. William Shakespeare   [Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Al Capp Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. Alfred North Whitehead Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Ambrose Bierce Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. Amy Lowell Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Andre Gide Let each man exercise the art he knows. Aristophanes I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. Ben Shahn So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. Brenda Ueland I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned. Brooke McEldowney, I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts. Charles Rosin, Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. Cicero Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests. David Cronenberg, Rocketboom, The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution. David Cronenberg, I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. E. M. Forster Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. Edith Wharton Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? Edith Wharton A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. Edmond de Goncourt Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. Elizabeth Bowen Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. Eugene Delacroix Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Frank Zappa I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. Frida Kahlo Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. G. K. Chesterton A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright   I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. Lynn Johnston A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. Patricia Neal Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. William James The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. William James   A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. Bob Hope Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. E. Joseph Cossman A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. Mark Twain The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. John Cage I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. John Constable Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. Petrarch When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. R. Buckminster Fuller Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein   This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. Alfred Hitchcock Bülent Göksal   EnglishEver © 2008