John Gay

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

Follow love and it will flee flee love and it will follow thee.

Excuse me then you know my heart But dearest friends alas must part.

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.

A wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.

In one respect indeed our employment may be reckoned dishonest because like great Statesmen we encourage those who betray their friends.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

Beasts kill for hunger men for pay.

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

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.

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

We only part to meet again. Change, as ye list, ye winds; my heart shall be the faithful compass that still points to thee.

We only part to meet again. Change as ye list ye winds my heart shall be. The faithful compass that still points to thee.

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

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.

Excuse me, then! you know my heart; But dearest friends, alas! must part

The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

From wine what sudden friendship springs!

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

We only part to meet again.

She who has never loved has never lived.

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

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.

Tis a gross error held in schools That Fortune always favours fools.

Fools may our scorn not envy raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

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.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

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.

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.