John Gay Quotes
Top 77 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Gay
John Gay Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
Were I laid on Greenland's Coast, And in my Arms embrac'd my Lass; Warm amidst eternal Frost, Too soon the Half Year's Night would pass.
Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.
Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.
I never, with important air, In conversation overbear ... My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain.
Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.
Love is so whimsical in both sexes that it is impossible to be lasting. But my heart is particular and contradicts my own observation.
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.
Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health.
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.
My lodging is on the cold ground, And hard, very hard, is my fare, But that which grieves me more Is the coldness of my dear.
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.
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.
Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.
Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? ... Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.
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.