George Colman the Elder famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.
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I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.
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Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.
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Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on The troubled waters of a lake, 'Twill form in circles round succeeding round; Each wider than the first.
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Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!
-- George Colman the Elder
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.
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Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.
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I believe that when people say something is impossible, it's only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.
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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.
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...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.
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The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility.
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We have a God who delights in impossibilities.
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