A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

chip see a CARPENTER is known by his chips.
choice see you PAYS your money and you takes your choice; SMALL choice in rotten apples.
choke see it is idle to SWALLOW the cow and choke on the tail.
choking see there are more WAYS of killing a cat than choking it with cream; there are more WAYS of killing a dog than choking it with butter.
Never CHOOSE your women or your linen by candlelight

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  1573 J. SANFORDE Garden of Pleasure 51 Choose not a woman, nor linnen clothe by the candle. 1678 J. RAY English Proverbs (ed. 2) 64 Neither women nor linnen by candle-light. 1737 B. FRANKLIN Poor Richard’s Almanack (May) Fine linnen, girls and gold so bright. Chuse not to take by candlelight. 1980 Woman’s Journal Dec. 105 ‘Never choose your women or your linen by candlelight,’ they used to say: a testimony to the soft, flattering glow that candles always give. ■ appearance, deceptive; women
  

choose see also of two EVILS choose the less.
chooser see BEGGARS can’t be choosers.
chosen see MANY are called but few are chosen.
Christmas see the DEVIL makes his Christmas pies of lawyers’ tongues and clerks’ fingers; a DOG is for life, not just for Christmas; a GREEN Yule makes a fat churchyard.
The CHURCH is an anvil which has worn out many hammers
The saying originated in the reply of the Calvinist theologian Theodore Beza (1519-1605) to the King of Navarre after the massacre of the Huguenots at Vassy in March 1562. The king had attempted to excuse the massacre on the grounds of the Protestants’ having provoked the Duke of Guise and his followers by throwing stones at them.

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  1853 G. DE FELICE Hist. Protestants of France I. II. v. 156 (tr. Beza to King of Navarre, 1562) It is the peculiarity of the Church of God.. to endure blows, not to give them; but yet you will be pleased to remember, that it is an anvil on which many a hammer has been broken. 1908 A. MACLAREN Acts of Apostles I. 136 The Church is an anvil which has worn out many hammers and the story of the first collision is, in essentials, the story of all. 1920 J. BUCHAN Path of King vii. ‘From this day I am an exile from France so long as it pleases God to make His Church an anvil for the blows of
  

His enemies.’.. ‘God’s church is now an anvil, but remember.. it is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. "Christianity
church see also the BLOOD of the martyrs is the seed of the Church; where GOD builds a church, the Devil will build a chapel; he is a GOOD dog who goes to church; the NEARER the church, the farther from God.