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John Gay
English
Poet
About the author
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
John Gay,
English
Poet
#Hope
#Wife
#Spirits
She who has never loved has never lived.
John Gay,
English
Poet
Shadow owes its birth to light.
John Gay,
English
Poet
#Light
#Shadow
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
John Gay,
English
Poet
#Forget
The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
John Gay,
English
Poet
#Love
#Delight
#Mercy
There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
John Gay,
English
Poet
#Self
#Dependence
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
John Gay,
English
Poet
#Quarrels
We only part to meet again.
John Gay,
English
Poet
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
John Gay,
English
Poet
#Rest
#Kiss
On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
John Gay,
English
Poet
#Friends
#Evil
#Choice
#Name
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,
English
Poet
#Love
#Woman
O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
John Gay,
English
Poet
#Men
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
John Gay,
English
Poet
#Love
#Delight
#Cowards
#Mercy
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
John Gay,
English
Poet
#May
#Friend
#Open
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,
English
Poet
#Wife
#Earth
#Money
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
John Gay,
English
Poet
#World
#Company
#Contempt
#Gentleman
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
John Gay,
English
Poet
#Love
#Will
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay,
English
Poet
#May
#Fools
#Praise
#Envy
Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.
John Gay,
English
Poet
#Wives
I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
John Gay,
English
Poet
#Nothing
#Mind
#Women
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,
English
Poet
#Man
#Animals
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
John Gay,
English
Poet