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A weak Invention of the Enemy.


Colley Cibber

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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 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 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 He has a habit of picking a weak enemy and berating them.
FELIPE NOGUERA Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
JOSH BILLINGS Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend
JOSH BILLINGS Conformity in light of the favorable opposition, makes one equally weak as thy enemy.
LEROY NELLIS II In a Fight its not about how strong you are, its about how weak the enemy is.
CHARLES ROBERT SIMMONS II You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homo...
TOM ROBBINS Fear is just a state of mind....and a weakness. Don't ever show your enemy you're weak, because they...
ZEPPELIN HARLOW ROSE She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck
PAUL VIRILIO An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the i...
AMIT KALANTRI I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.
ROSS PEROT She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled wi...
BRIAN SELZNICK In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without te...
MIYAMOTO MUSASHI The patent system is a trade-off. We get the 'good' of an invention in exchange for the 'bad' of a t...
JOSH LERNER I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. A guilty conscience is the mother of invention
CAROLYN WELLS A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
CAROLYN WELLS The Invention of Love,
BEN BRANTLEY An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art i...
OCTAVIO PAZ Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art...
OCTAVIO PAZ Necessity... the mother of invention.
PLATO Want, the mistress of invention.
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE Necessity, the mother of invention
GEORGE FARQUHAR I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.
FRANK DELANEY Doubt is the father of invention.
AMBROSE BIERCE Doubt is the father of invention.
GALILEO GALILEI Necessity is the mother of invention.
JONATHAN SWIFT Exasperation is the mother of invention.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Invention is the mother of necessity.
THORSTEIN VEBLEN Want is the mistress of invention
SUSANNA CENTLIVRE Necessity is the mother of invention.
PLATO Mothers are the necessity of invention.
BILL WATTERSON Mother is the invention of necessity.
JONAS BELCK Poverty is the origin of invention
SUNDAY ADELAJA Desperation is the father of invention.
MICHEAL LEE NELSON The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments: its invention was to music what the...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Bush is the enemy of God, the enemy of Islam, an enemy of Muslims.
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BENNY ELON

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 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 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
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