Colley CibberThinkers

Fame is everything — One had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.

Fashion is everything — One had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.

Love is the weightier business of mankind.

Marriage is trouble — Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

Play is both a performance and a working-toward some ideal performance of the 'not yet'.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

Poverty is the reward of honest fools.

Prohibition is a sweetening agent — Stolen sweets are best.

Tea is a soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.

A Wedding ring is all trouble — Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.