John Gay famous quotes

03-28-2025

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
-- John Gay

#Love #Confused #Thee
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
-- John Gay

#Love #Bravery #Coward
There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
-- John Gay

#Responsibility #Self
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
-- John Gay

#Life #Sweet #Kissing
O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
-- John Gay

#Flirty #Kissing #Flirting
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

#Men #Animal #Together
Envy is a kind of praise.
-- John Gay

#Envy #Kind #Praise
You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.
-- John Gay

#Hypocrite #Judging #Judgement
A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much
-- John Gay

#Men #Too Much
Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.
-- John Gay

#Wise #Heart #Giving
Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.
-- John Gay

#Love #Joy #Youth
The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.
-- John Gay

#Luxury #Giving #Doing Good
From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.
-- John Gay

#Kings #Cobblers #Fame
I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays.
-- John Gay

#Hate #Character #Men
Thus shadow owes its birth to light.
-- John Gay

#Light #Shadow #Light And Shadow
I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense.
-- John Gay

#Skills #Twists #Ease
One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.
-- John Gay

#Fate #Envy #Common
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.
-- John Gay

#Men #Sheep #May
Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.
-- John Gay

#Musician #Might #Beast
Envy's a sharper spur than pay.
-- John Gay

#Envy #Spurs #Pay
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

#Love #Affection #Grows
And when a lady's in the case, You know, all other things give place.
-- John Gay

#Women #Giving #Cases
Who talks much, must talk in vain.
-- John Gay

#Vain
Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.
-- John Gay

#Blow #Daisies #Meadows
What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes
-- John Gay

#Jealousy #Believe #Frenzy
A woman's friendship ever ends in love.
-- John Gay

#Ends
One wife is too much for most husbands to bear, But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.
-- John Gay

#Husband #Two #Wife

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