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Text Quotes
A woman’s friendship ever ends in love (John Gay Quotes)
If with me you’d fondly stray Over the hills and far away (John Gay Quotes)
The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment (John Gay Quotes)
Titles and profit I resign, the post of honor shall be mine (John Gay Quotes)
I never, with important air, in conversation overbear... My tongue within my lips I rein; for who talks much must talk in vain (John Gay Quotes)
Cynthia, fair regent of the night, oh, may thy silver lamp from heaven’s high bower direct my footsteps in the midnight hour (John Gay Quotes)
Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives (John Gay Quotes)
I know you lawyers can, with ease, twist words and meanings as you please; that language, by your skill made pliant, will bend to favor ev’ry client (John Gay Quotes)
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 Quotes)
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest (John Gay Quotes)
Impartially their talents scan, just education forms the man (John Gay Quotes)
Dogmatic jargon learnt by heart, trite sentences hard terms of art, to vulgar ears seemed so profound, they fancied learning in the sound (John Gay Quotes)
That man must daily wiser grow, whose search is bent himself to know (John Gay Quotes)
One common fate we both must prove; you die with envy, I with love (John Gay Quotes)
No gale disturb the trees, nor aspen leaves confess the gentle breeze (John Gay Quotes)
Adieu, she cries, and waved her lily hand (John Gay Quotes)
Man is practised in disguise; He cheats the most discerning eyes (John Gay Quotes)
A miss for pleasure, and a wife for breed (John Gay Quotes)
How happy could I be with either, were t’other dear charmer away! But, while ye thus tease me together, to neither a word will I say (John Gay Quotes)
My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, but that which troubles me most, is the unkindness of my dear (John Gay Quotes)
Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them! (John Gay Quotes)
The sun was set; the night came on apace, and falling dews bewet around the place; the bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, and the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings (John Gay Quotes)
Reproachful speech from either side the want of argument supplied; they rail, reviled; as often ends the contests of disputing friends (John Gay Quotes)
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 tomorrow (John Gay Quotes)
Fill ev’ry glass, for wine inspires us, and fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on Earth desirous? (John Gay Quotes)
What happiness the rural maid attends, in cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav’n has sent, and, rich in poverty, enjoys content (John Gay Quotes)
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 (John Gay Quotes)
‘T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts (John Gay Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Woman’s mind Oft’ shifts her passions, like th’inconstant wind; Sudden she rages, like the troubled main, Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again. (John Gay Quotes)