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Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.


George Colman "The Younger"

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GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I had a soul above buttons.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") 'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") All argument will vanish before one touch of nature.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") Like two single gentlemen rolled into one. - George Colman ("The Younger"),
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk, Sipped brandy and water gayly.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") Married in haste we may repent at leisure.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" When anger rises, think of the consequences.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years aft...
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies, seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our fri...
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" On their own merits modest men are dumb.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" When the hollow drum has beat to bed And the little fifer hangs his head, When all is mute the...
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") On their own merits modest men are dumb.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig....
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") I marched the lobby, twirled my stick, . . . . The girls all cried, "He's quite the kick."
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") But when ill indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. - George Colman ("The ...
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!
GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER Lord help you! Tell 'em Queen Anne's dead.
GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER Mum's the word.
GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'.
GEORGE COLMAN Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
DUMAS THE YOUNGER It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate sk...
PLINY THE YOUNGER That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
PLINY THE YOUNGER An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
PLINY THE YOUNGER 'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
MALACLYPSE THE YOUNGER There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is...
PLINY THE YOUNGER His only fault is that he has no fault.
PLINY THE YOUNGER However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your...
PLINY THE YOUNGER So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There ...
PLINY THE YOUNGER Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter, perish in its fall.
WILLIAM PITT ("THE YOUNGER") Over her hung a canopy of state, Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled gold, But of a substance,...
GILES FLETCHER ("THE YOUNGER") The immortal swan that did her life deplore.
GILES FLETCHER ("THE YOUNGER") Oh, my country! how I leave my country!
WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that...
WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.
WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behin...
WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.
WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER Where law ends, tyranny begins
WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is ...
WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER Roll up that map: it will not be wanted these ten years.
WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one ev...
EVELLE YOUNGER They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens...
COLE YOUNGER Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the c...
COLE YOUNGER I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary o...
COLE YOUNGER They want someone to take care of it for them. So they're just jumping on this opportunity, this bul...
BEN YOUNGER They're preying on the bullish market because they know people want to get invested,
BEN YOUNGER I love it. I'm actually getting a little bit too caught up. I've got to cool it a little, because I'...
BEN YOUNGER I love it,
BEN YOUNGER [As in the movie, the interview was like a Fascist Youth rally,] half an hour of this recruiting off...
BEN YOUNGER There was no foresight on my part. But if you had walked in on that day, you would have known immedi...
BEN YOUNGER It's pretty timely, ... Not that I had the foresight. I just -- I found a new world, and I figured I...
BEN YOUNGER Don't be blindfolded by wins or losses. Treat them equally, but draw motivation from both.
BRANDON YOUNGER I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.
COLE YOUNGER I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were tr...
COLE YOUNGER A little-known fact: Next to nothing is impossible. Actually, nothing itself is impossible. Nothing ...
DANIEL YOUNGER It would take a good amount of work, a considerable amount of patience, and an unfathomable amount o...
DANIEL YOUNGER When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earli...
OLIVIA COLMAN I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never b...
OLIVIA COLMAN I can see why people keep having babies. We were looking at a school for my youngest this morning, a...
OLIVIA COLMAN I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The o...
OLIVIA COLMAN In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a ...
OLIVIA COLMAN I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it sti...
OLIVIA COLMAN You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because ...
OLIVIA COLMAN I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as tha...
OLIVIA COLMAN I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindne...
OLIVIA COLMAN Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.
OLIVIA COLMAN If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smo...
OLIVIA COLMAN I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for gi...
OLIVIA COLMAN I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powe...
OLIVIA COLMAN As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' ...
OLIVIA COLMAN My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of cou...
OLIVIA COLMAN I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my hu...
OLIVIA COLMAN If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a di...
OLIVIA COLMAN I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It'...
OLIVIA COLMAN The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just l...
OLIVIA COLMAN Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old pe...
OLIVIA COLMAN I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was alwa...
OLIVIA COLMAN I am just an actor - all I do is I memorise someone else's words and tart around.
OLIVIA COLMAN Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket p...
OLIVIA COLMAN I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
OLIVIA COLMAN Can we make money from this? That remains to be seen.
ALAN COLMAN Singapore is gaining a lot of credibility as a good place to work. It has actually been easier for m...
ALAN COLMAN It has undoubtedly harmed the image not just in Singapore, where I directly feel it has impacted our...
ALAN COLMAN Although Singapore has a relatively limited pool of scientists as compared to the U.K., it has maxim...
ALAN COLMAN They are a big catch. They are prominent researchers, very successful in the U.S..
ALAN COLMAN Practice, it is said, makes perfect. But is it ethical to practice? And I absolutely think it is not...
ALAN COLMAN It's an experience I'd like to add to the chorus, that these blue-collar, macho men, like my...
COLMAN DOMINGO Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
COLMAN MCCARTHY From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along wi...
COLMAN DOMINGO It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade a...
COLMAN DOMINGO My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people&#...
OLIVIA COLMAN You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and...
OLIVIA COLMAN If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestl...
OLIVIA COLMAN My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I'v...
COLMAN DOMINGO Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
COLMAN MCCARTHY I do believe we should forgive those people who perpetrated 9/11 and ask that they forgive us.
COLMAN MCCARTHY The failure of love: that's what all laws are really.
COLMAN MCCARTHY Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence, ... Each year, fewer tha...
COLMAN MCCARTHY Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
COLMAN MCCARTHY I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's '...
COLMAN DOMINGO I've always done drama, but I suppose 'Tyrannosaur' was a bit of a watershed moment for ...
OLIVIA COLMAN When you're doing exactly what you want to do, it's not tiring. You've been planting the...
COLMAN DOMINGO I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone...
OLIVIA COLMAN I used to want to be in 'Downton' because I had never been in a period drama, but then I did...
OLIVIA COLMAN I feel like a cup of tea with no milk. I just had one. It was disgusting.
PAUL COLMAN Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals
COLMAN MCCARTHY Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengt...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA (SENECA THE YOUNGER) Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every g...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA (SENECA THE YOUNGER) The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the int...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA (SENECA THE YOUNGER) For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former fav...
PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS) Joking set aside. [Lat., Omissis jocis.]
PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS) Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though w...
PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS) A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of our feelings. [Lat., Plerumque do...
PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS) All art is but imitation of nature.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA (SENECA THE YOUNGER) He has no fault except that he has no fault. [Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.]
PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS) And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head...
PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS) An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one ev...
EVELLE J. YOUNGER For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha...
THE WEEKND I'm the most boring person to talk to.
THE WEEKND Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
THE TALMUD He who promises runs in debt.
THE TALMUD For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.
THE WEEKND Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not ...
THE BIBLE Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
THE TALMUD Who is wise? One who learns from all.
THE TALMUD The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
THE TALMUD Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha...
THE EDGE Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
THE TALMUD If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
THE TALMUD Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
THE TALMUD This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
THE TALMUD Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving proc...
THE KORAN When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
THE TALMUD This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or inj...
THE MAHABHARTA The sun will set without thy assistance.
THE TALMUD A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed...
THE TALMUD Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
THE TALMUD Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more...
THE TALMUD Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
THE TALMUD The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.
THE TALMUD A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
THE TALMUD To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong
THE TALMUD Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while goo...
THE TALMUD Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousnes...
THE TALMUD Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scriptur...
THE TALMUD Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
THE TALMUD A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
THE BIBLE Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?
THE BIBLE If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
THE BIBLE Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ru...
THE BIBLE Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise ma...
THE BIBLE A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
THE BIBLE Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come.
THE BIBLE And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom...
THE BIBLE And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, a...
THE BIBLE But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are ...
THE BIBLE Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
THE BIBLE A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
THE BIBLE Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
THE BIBLE Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of...
THE BIBLE When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall pre...
THE BIBLE For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their...
THE BIBLE The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is...
THE BIBLE So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou cri...
THE BIBLE Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
THE BIBLE Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
THE BIBLE A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
THE BIBLE There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged...
THE BIBLE And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great te...
THE BIBLE Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see t...
THE BIBLE He who works his land will have abundant food.
THE BIBLE God helps those who persevere.
THE KORAN Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
THE TALMUD And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords...
THE BIBLE The highest form of wisdom is kindness
THE TALMUD The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
THE TALMUD Be eager to fulfill the smallest duty and flee from transgression for one duty includes another and ...
THE TALMUD Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
THE TALMUD Sheep follow sheep.
THE TALMUD Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
THE TALMUD When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonica...
THE WEEKND This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make u...
THE MENTOR For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you're doing something good.
THE WEEKND The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in 'The Dark Knight' had the scar across his mouth,...
THE WEEKND 'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't le...
THE WEEKND The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It...
THE EDGE It wasn’t that everything was going my way, but I began to believe that the way it was going was p...
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