Colley Cibber Famous Quotes



"Our hours in love have wings in absence, crutches."

Possession is eleven points in the law.

"Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they re ended."

"We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang."


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An army marches on its stomach.
Napoleon Bonaparte

"There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand."
Charles Rosin

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
Martha Beck

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
Albert Schweitzer

"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives."
Vince Lombardi

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
Carl Gustav Jung

"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
Samuel Johnson

"When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless."
Bertrand Russell

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
Garry Marshall

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
George Washington