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Colley Cibber

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I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.
COLLEY CIBBER This business will never hold water.
COLLEY CIBBER Words are but empty thanks.
COLLEY CIBBER The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome Outlives, in fame, the pious fool that rais'd it.
COLLEY CIBBER A weak Invention of the Enemy.
COLLEY CIBBER Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
COLLEY CIBBER You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.
COLLEY CIBBER Thou strange piece of wild nature!
COLLEY CIBBER Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wick...
COLLEY CIBBER Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
COLLEY CIBBER Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of...
COLLEY CIBBER Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended.
COLLEY CIBBER Stolen sweets are best.
COLLEY CIBBER The will for the deed.
COLLEY CIBBER Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, . . . thou female tongue-running, smile-sm...
COLLEY CIBBER As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.
COLLEY CIBBER Possession is eleven points in the law.
COLLEY CIBBER Losers must have leave to speak.
COLLEY CIBBER Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they ’re ended.
COLLEY CIBBER We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismi...
COLLEY CIBBER I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has...
COLLEY CIBBER Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.
COLLEY CIBBER So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her Love, And thus the Soldier arm'd with Resolution Told his s...
COLLEY CIBBER Off with his head - so much for Buckingham.
COLLEY CIBBER The happy have whole days,
and those they choose.
The unhappy have but hours,
and tho...
COLLEY CIBBER It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a ...
COLLEY CIBBER Old houses mended, cost little less than new before they're ended
COLLEY CIBBER Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, hear...
COLLEY CIBBER Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wick...
COLLEY CIBBER Conscience avaunt, Richard's himself again.
COLLEY CIBBER and those they lose.
COLLEY CIBBER One had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion
COLLEY CIBBER Stolen sweets are best
COLLEY CIBBER Dumb's a sly dog.
COLLEY CIBBER Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.
COLLEY CIBBER Tea! Thou soft, thou sober,
sage and venerable liquid ...
to whose glorious insipidity, COLLEY CIBBER Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you."

[Love's Last Shift]
COLLEY CIBBER Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought
STEPHEN KING Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to t...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN There we found a Cheyenne cannot live. So we came home. Better it was, we thought, to die fighting t...
DULL KNIFE Without substance, the speech will perish,
PEGGY NOONAN Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Without the knowledge of God ,we perish.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not pe...
CHIANG KAI-SHEK I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.
DANIEL J. BERNSTEIN Let them perish through their own imaginations.
BIBLE All they that take the sword, shall perish with the sword
BIBLE We are going to survive together, or we are going to perish together.
TED TURNER I burn, I pine, I perish
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
AESCHYLUS Where there is no vision, the people perish.
BIBLE Let justice be done, though the world perish
EMPEROR FERDINAND I Perish the Universe, provided I have my revenge.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC From the wreck of the past, which hath perish
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Love must risk all or perish.
ANTHONY RYAN Change is inevitable, relish or perish
JASPREET SINGH Do what is right, though the world may perish
IMMANUEL KANT I do wonder why modern society has made monogamy the one and only option. In England, it's alway...
JADE JAGGER If we continued in the State we were in, it was evident we must Perish-if we declared Independance, ...
ABRAHAM CLARK Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared -- this...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Perish discretion when it interferes with duty
HANNAH MOORE Favour will as surely perish as life.
GEORGE HERBERT Sadly, many of these birds likely perish,
PHIL TAYLOR Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
OVID No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.
HESIOD So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
BIBLE Where there is no vision a people perish.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs 29:18
BIBLE As long as a language lives, the war will not perish.
VIKRANT PARSAI Where there is no vision, the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18)
BIBLE Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
THOMAS MOORE Be aristocracy the only joy: Let commerce perish--let the world expire.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH We must do better or perish as the nation we know today.
LAURO CAVAZOS Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
ANATOLE FRANCE Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCE Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Rome shall perish - write that word / In the blood that she has spilt.
WILLIAM COWPER Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Perish those who said our good things before we did.
DONATUS We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
TITUS LIVY Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLS He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
GEORGE HERBERT But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
BIBLE Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
FERDINAND I Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER For lack of knowledge of the Holy One, we perish in sin of hell.
LAILAH GIFTY, AKITA It is those few who gain by war who send the many to perish.
CAMILLO MAC BICA The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
BIBLE He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
ANNE FRANK We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery
ANNE FRANK

More Colley Cibber

Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.
COLLEY CIBBER This business will never hold water.
COLLEY CIBBER Words are but empty thanks.
COLLEY CIBBER The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome Outlives, in fame, the pious fool that rais'd it.
COLLEY CIBBER A weak Invention of the Enemy.
COLLEY CIBBER Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
COLLEY CIBBER You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.
COLLEY CIBBER Thou strange piece of wild nature!
COLLEY CIBBER Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wick...
COLLEY CIBBER Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
COLLEY CIBBER Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of...
COLLEY CIBBER Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended.
COLLEY CIBBER Stolen sweets are best.
COLLEY CIBBER The will for the deed.
COLLEY CIBBER Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, . . . thou female tongue-running, smile-sm...
COLLEY CIBBER As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.
COLLEY CIBBER Possession is eleven points in the law.
COLLEY CIBBER Losers must have leave to speak.
COLLEY CIBBER Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they ’re ended.
COLLEY CIBBER We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismi...
COLLEY CIBBER I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has...
COLLEY CIBBER Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.
COLLEY CIBBER So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her Love, And thus the Soldier arm'd with Resolution Told his s...
COLLEY CIBBER Off with his head - so much for Buckingham.
COLLEY CIBBER The happy have whole days,
and those they choose.
The unhappy have but hours,
and tho...
COLLEY CIBBER It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a ...
COLLEY CIBBER Old houses mended, cost little less than new before they're ended
COLLEY CIBBER Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, hear...
COLLEY CIBBER Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wick...
COLLEY CIBBER Conscience avaunt, Richard's himself again.
COLLEY CIBBER and those they lose.
COLLEY CIBBER One had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion
COLLEY CIBBER Stolen sweets are best
COLLEY CIBBER Dumb's a sly dog.
COLLEY CIBBER Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.
COLLEY CIBBER Tea! Thou soft, thou sober,
sage and venerable liquid ...
to whose glorious insipidity, COLLEY CIBBER Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you."

[Love's Last Shift]
COLLEY CIBBER We've got to be quicker, faster and smarter!
JACK COLLEY We went hard and we really work on strategy. Then we started to taper down. We don't push the kids. ...
DAVE COLLEY Jesse is on some other planet. He is something else. He goes fast and strong and is so surprising. H...
DAVE COLLEY ...you're my Jedi Knights!
JACK COLLEY With time, the horror of slavery becomes history. Yet today, my heart weeps with deep misery for the...
EVETH COLLEY We've just sent three Blackhawk helicopters and have dozers en route.
JACK COLLEY They beat on him and he was able to hold his position. He was real sound and wasn't put in a bad spo...
DAVE COLLEY If they have to look up and throw, they don't want to change their style all of a sudden. They have ...
DAVE COLLEY My point of view is to let them be in some type of control. There are some parameters and they have ...
DAVE COLLEY That's a critical area for us because of the potential to have large forest fires, much like you'd s...
JACK COLLEY We're preparing for operations through the end of April; that's not good news.
JACK COLLEY There is little or no chance of rain for the next several days.
JACK COLLEY We're very concerned about that.
JACK COLLEY Fifteen counties were impacted, we're still in the response mode, and our objective now is to ensure...
JACK COLLEY We're looking not just at a coastal event, but a second (or) third event that will occur over the ne...
JACK COLLEY There's nothing minimal about Claudette.
JACK COLLEY It's going to be enormous.
JACK COLLEY It could cause a catastrophic flooding event.
JACK COLLEY Hurricanes are the greatest single natural catastrophic threat to this state by far.
JACK COLLEY We have a really good seventh-grade class. Even though they're small, their soccer skills are so dev...
LISA COLLEY We had to go to a junior varsity program because we thought it would be better to wait until the gir...
LISA COLLEY It's our first year coming back. I knew they had talent, but I'm pleasantly surprised. They have a r...
LISA COLLEY I'm so glad God is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path, because I'm afraid of the Dark, and...
MEGHIN ELIZABETH COLLEY A true artist, without a viewer, will still create.
ELIZABETH CLAIRE COLLEY Let the children speak of art
ELIZABETH CLAIRE COLLEY