Colley Cibber quotes

" Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. " # Absence # Love # Time and Time Management

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

" Possession is eleven points in the law. " # Churches

" Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring! " # Marriage # Weddings # Politicians and Politics

" Thou strange piece of wild nature! " # Eccentricity # Death and Dying # Nature

" You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion. " # Fashion

" Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners. " # Jokes and Jokers # Compassion # Manners

" Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate thus, and adore thee. " # Tea # Love # Age and Aging

" Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners. " # Jokes and Jokers # Courage # Compassion

" Words are but empty thanks. " # Words