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Thou strange piece of wild nature!


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 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 Perish the thought!
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 Thou unassuming Commonplace Of Nature.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live...
EDWARD YOUNG Wild nature... is enriched by sensuality.
MICHAEL FROME Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH So, in this way of writing without thinking,/ Thou hast a strange alacrity in sinking.
THOMAS SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET You can't just let nature run wild.
WALT DISNEY O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You can't just let nature run wild.
WALT DISNEY Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They're magnificent animals. It's just an exceptional piece of nature, these beasts.
BILL RAY When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that w...
JACOB BOEHME The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of th...
JIM MORRISON There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations o...
J. SHERIDAN LE FANU You can never stay angry too long in the bush though. At least, that's what I think. It's not that i...
JOHN MARSDEN Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild
IMMANUEL KANT Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS To be fully human is to be wild. Wild is the strange pull and whispering wisdom. It’s the gentle n...
VICTORIA ERICKSON Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that...
THOMAS HOOD How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
EMILY DICKINSON I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spi...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD I have my doubts about his attitude toward wild nature and that he did anything to help the bears, ....
WERNER HERZOG Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine, and be not diffident
Of wisdom, ...
JOHN MILTON Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. ...
MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
LEWIS THOMAS ...it is disquieting to feel that the conversion into a National Forest or Park always means the est...
ALDO LEOPOLD Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
JOHN ACTON Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
LORD ACTON Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
PAT CONROY Lions are neither predators nor killers. They just go for hunting like kings; because they are the k...
MUNIA KHAN Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold, "There is a God," thou ...
JEAN INGELOW O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Tho...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In the world of wild naturalism, there is nothing greater or higher than mortal survival tactics. Ev...
ABHIJIT NASKAR In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
SOCRATES If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.
JOHN MCPHEE To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scali...
BERYL MARKHAM ... there's a silent voice in the wilderness that we hear only when no one else is around. When you ...
ROB SCHULTHEIS A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as...
HENRY FIELDING Strictly speaking, one never 'keeps' bees - one comes to terms with their wild nature.
SUE HUBBELL We are from the West. The world we suggest should be of a new wild West, a sensuous, evil world, str...
JIM MORRISON But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everyt...
SAMUEL PEPYS Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his natur...
MOHAMMED Time carries off all things; wouldst thou exchange - Name, looks, nature, luck? Just give time full ...
PLATO Thou hast prevariated with thy friend, By underhand contrivances undone me: And while my open ...
NICHOLAS ROWE Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed ...
FRANCIS BACON Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it...
SIR FRANCIS BACON He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange vis...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. -The Merchant of Venice. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Unknown to her the rigid rule, the dull restraint, the chiding frown, the weary torture of the schoo...
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted fi...
ROBERT BLAIR I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
WALT DISNEY When someone makes you lose your peace of mind, it is good to give them a piece of mind that may mak...
APURVA GAGLANI Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she dese...
JOHN MILTON Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...
FRANCIS BACON Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, nature was his book.
ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, / The fields his study, Nature was his book.
ROBERT BLOOMFIELD By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the ...
JANE JACOBS Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that...
PRIMO LEVI I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in wood...
JOHN DRYDEN In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our m...
MICHAEL POLLAN

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 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 Perish the thought!
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