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Possession is eleven points in the law.


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 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 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 Possession is nine tenths of the law.
PROVERB That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.
BIDPAI (PILPAY) A foot on the neck is nine points of the law.
TERRY PRATCHETT Cities do not have the authority under the state law to ban the possession of handguns.
WAYNE LAPIERRE It has been eleven days, Stephen, eleven fucking days! Eleven! The presidency is supposed to age the...
JON STEWART Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It...
RAVI ZACHARIAS Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
JOHN LENNON July 11. She had always liked those numbers, seven and eleven. In charada, the mystical signi...
ZOé VALDéS The greatest possession is Self-possession
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD The greatest possession is self-possession.
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of ...
JIMMY CARTER Thoreau points out clearly that civil disobedience gets its moral authority by the willingness to su...
MICHAEL HAYDEN Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Our goal was to give them one shot per possession. We did a good job of that. They got some points i...
GREG AMUNDSON Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submissio...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 The mystery revealed, in a un...
FRIEDRICH VON HÜGEL How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.
SPIKE MILLIGAN He who does not want to ruin own married life should disconnect, from the very first day of their we...
ANUJ SOMANY The more a mother intrudes with her advice into her married daughter’s house, the more she spoils ...
ANUJ SOMANY The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best,...
KNUTE ROCKNE Without law,there will be no sin,without the rich,there wil be no the poor & without truth,there wil...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.
BERT CAMPANERIS It's difficult for any team to do. You can't be down 20 points in the second half and expect to get ...
BEN LUBER The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA We are proposing to strengthen the criminal law in respect of possession of a limited category of ex...
PAUL GOGGINS She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER WRITERS Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... Eleven on Top.
JANET EVANOVICH I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.
DAVE WINER One and one are sometimes eleven
KASHMIRI PROVERB افضل الموت هنا,لكن, قبل ان اموت, اريد ان اصارع من اجل الح...
ماريا I follow my law and fulfil it all duly--and look! when your doubt runneth high-- North points to...
EDITH MATILDA THOMAS I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.
BERT CAMPANERIS I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
DINAH SHERIDAN It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all ...
HENRY JAMES SUMNER MAINE The law enables us to see ourselves as morally dirty and in need of cleansing. But it also points us...
BILLY GRAHAM Only the team that scores deserves to win. We had more possession but couldn't create any real chanc...
CO ADRIAANSE The best way to have in abundance is to give in essence. There is great possession in charity.
ADEWALE OSUNSAKIN Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no...
G. W. F. HEGEL A true friend is the best possession.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Surely,' I said, 'you don't think that you are going to die because you dreamed you saw your old fat...
H. RIDER HAGGARD An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
MARKUS ZUSAK Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. A...
SAINT AMBROSE In the absence of law, winner is the law maker.
TOBA BETA In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.
ERIC LIU The possession of anything begins in the mind
BRUCE LEE Well, shit," Dobe said. "I guess you're familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its hou...
ILONA ANDREWS Betrayal can be a double edged sword , you can get stabbed in the back and manipulated by it.On the ...
GARY F EVANS... The just society where the law will be above every man,is the type of society we should all endeavor...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) This points out what we consider to be a quirk in the law. While there is a qualifying deadline that...
DAVID BLOUNT The theory behind a [debtor-in-possession] loan is that it is first among equals in the bankruptcy p...
JAMES HARRIS No woman answereth an important question in less than eleven score words
FRANK GELETT BURGESS Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I; Cleon dwelleth in a place,-- In a c...
CHARLES MACKAY Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim tha...
LOUIS XVIII It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one ...
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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 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.
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LISA COLLEY We had to go to a junior varsity program because we thought it would be better to wait until the gir...
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