All 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
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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
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But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
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There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
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Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
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I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
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Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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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.
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No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
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