A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

contempt see FAMILIARITY breeds contempt.
continual see CONSTANT dropping wears away a stone.
contrary see DREAMS go by contraries.
cook see GOD sends meat, but the Devil sends cooks; TOO many cooks spoil the broth.
corn see a KING’S chaff is worth more than other men’s corn.
CORPORATIONS have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned
A large organization, unlike a private individual, can act unjustly or highhandedly without fear of being brought to account.

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  1658 E. BULSTRODE Reports II. 233 The opinion of Manwood, chief Baron [c 1580], was this, as touching Corporations, that they were invisible, immortall, and that they had no soule; and therefore no Subprena lieth against them, because they have no Conscience nor soule. c 1820 J. POYNDER Literary Extracts (1844) 1.268 Lord Chancellor Thurlow said [c 1775] that the corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned. a 1845 S. SMITH in S. Holland Memoir (1855) I. xi. Why, you never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick. 1932 ERNST & LINDEY Hold your Tongue xii. A corporation is just like any natural person, except that it has no pants to kick or soul to damn, and, by God, it ought to have both. “business; conscience
  

corrupt see EVIL communications corrupt good manners; POWER corrupts.
cost see CIVILITY costs nothing.
cough see LOVE and a cough cannot be hid.
COUNCILS of war never fight
People discussing matters in a group never reach the decision to take action, which an individual would make.

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  1863 H. W. HALLECK Telegram 13 July (1877) III. 148 Act upon your own judgment and make your Generals execute your orders. Call no counsel [sic] of war. It is proverbial that counsels of war never fight. 1891 A. FORBES Barracks, Bivouacs & Battles 191 Solomon’s adage that in the multitude of counsellors there is wisdom does not apply to war. ‘Councils of war never fight’ has passed into a proverb. 1998 Washington Times 28 Sept. A21 A council of war never fights, and in a crisis the duty of a leader is to lead and not to take refuge behind the generally timid wisdom of a multitude of councilors. ■ action and inaction; decision and indecision; warfare