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Words are but empty thanks.


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 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 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 And empty words are evil.
HOMER Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
HOMER Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to th...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often su...
ALDOUS HUXLEY will not remain mere empty words.
LEVY MWANAWASA There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them a...
TOBA BETA We never stop loving,
No matter what we say,
because we say just empty words,
to keep...
ANTHONY T HINCKS There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.
Great thanks to the poets who make t...
TOBA BETA The condition of job-seekers is like that of beggars who can't be choosers, so don't buy the empty w...
ANUJ SOMANY When you read someones quote you are reading someones feelings. To understand ones words you need to...
ROSA M. BETANCES Books are something which by the words breaths when you stop writing it stops it's own proccess = br...
DEYTH BANGER Words are like birds in a cage, once released, they fly
SOTONYE ANGA Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
SAMUEL BUTLER Thank you? Was that like a thanks, but no thanks? Thanks, but I’m watching a movie, leave me alone...
CORA CARMACK The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with e...
CHARLIE SHEDD I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thanks, but no thanks. I need my makeup honey. - Carol
MATTHEW LEETH Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound...
EUGENE H. PETERSON and i have learned that an apology is mostly empty words. the real apology comes from change
JOHNNY MORPHINE Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE When someone is going through a storm, your silent presence is more powerful than a million, empty w...
THEMA DAVIS I don't fall for words, I fall for action because words always carry empty promises but one step at ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) I expect to either hear 'thanks, but no thanks,' or more information about the process,
BRIAN DONNELLY In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only perform...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
JONATHAN SWIFT We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Old empty chairs are not empty in reality; memories always sit there!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN "Offering thanks and giving words of praise, to those we love and care about, is sharing the true sp...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN These two leaders are determined to carry on this fight against terror, not by making statements, no...
EHUD OLMERT Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
OCTAVIO PAZ There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cu...
ILAN STAVANS ...the words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English langu...
DONALD MILLER Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
JOSH BILLINGS Because you might just get there and turn around and want to leave again. I'm not going to ping-pong...
BUT APRIL I want to make sure it is out of there for good. Whatever it is, there is a shark floating in there ...
BUT BURNETT Something wasn't right. It's pretty frustrating. I feel about two inches tall.
BUT BURNETT Well? I mean, I know fatherhood isn't your strong suit, but I thought maybe you'd evolved a little s...
BUT APRIL Last time I heard, she was still pregnant, and you were still in the running for daddy.
BUT APRIL All phenomena are empty.
BODHIDHARMA A picture says more than a thousands words, but which words are these?
TAEKE DE JONG I had dedicated my life to words. But sometimes, words are not needed.
JORDAN L. HAWK Petty deviance is encouraged
JKRAK [His last posting came on July 29, Jennings' birthday.] Many thanks to all of you for your birthday ...
PETER JENNINGS Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words fro...
OSCAR WILDE From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive an...
KAREN HESSE The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future...
GAYLORD NELSON Everybody said the same thing: 'Thanks but no thanks. Your songs just aren't hot enough for our arti...
KEITH SWEAT Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through ...
DAVID RAINS WALLACE Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
IZAAK WALTON Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
SAMUEL MADDEN Wherever you see an empty life, or an empty page or an empty mind, add something good to it!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Giving thanks are the concrete steps to happiness
MATT MALDRE We said thanks, but the offer was insufficient.
SAM STERN Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDEN These are but wild and whirling words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Words are but the signs of ideas.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Thanks, when they are expressed, are often more embarrassing than welcomed
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are...
HAROLD S. GENEEN It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sw...
JOE ABERCROMBIE

More Colley Cibber

Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.
COLLEY CIBBER This business will never hold water.
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 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