Quotes of John Gay - somelinesforyou

“ Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. ”

- John Gay

“ Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ”

- John Gay

“ We only part to meet again. ”

- John Gay

“ We only part to meet again. ”

- John Gay

“ Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. ”

- John Gay

“ Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour When health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies. ”

- John Gay

“ A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Sir, your wife may steal your rest, Sir, a thief your goods and plate. But this is all but picking, with rest, pence, chest and chicken; it ever was decreed, Sir, if lawyer's hand is fee d, Sir, he steals your whole estate. ”

- John Gay

“ Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. ”

- John Gay

“ What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us. ”

- John Gay

“ In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all. ”

- John Gay

“ The child whom many fathers share hath seldom known a father's care. ”

- John Gay

“ The child whom many fathers share hath seldom known a father's care. ”

- John Gay

“ Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow. ”

- John Gay

“ Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another. ”

- John Gay

“ Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most. ”

- John Gay

“ Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most. ”

- John Gay

“ Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. ”

- John Gay

“ Employers are frustrated because there is so much paperwork and oftentimes you don't know if things are real or not. ”

- John Gay

“ Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together. ”

- John Gay

“ But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out. ”

- John Gay

“ From wine what sudden friendship springs? ”

- John Gay

“ How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. ”

- John Gay

“ How many saucy airs we meet, From Temple Bar to Aldgate street! ”

- John Gay

“ Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. ”

- John Gay

“ Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. ”

- John Gay

“ Those who in quarrels interpose - Must often wipe a bloody nose. ”

- John Gay

“ What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood. ”

- John Gay

“ Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. ”

- John Gay

“ How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. ”

- John Gay

“ Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. ”

- John Gay
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