| 71 Famous Quotes by John Gay
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“Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r,
Can give the heart a cheerful hour
When health is lost. Be timely wise;
With health all taste of pleasure flies.”
Health Quotes Source: Fables (pt. I, fable 31)
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“When rogues like these (a sparrow cries)
To honours and employments rise,
I court no favor, ask no place,
For such preferment is disgrace.”
Corruption Quotes Source: Fables (pt. II, fable 2)
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“I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another's fame.”
Slander Quotes Source: The Poet and the Rose
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“A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.”
Reputation Quotes Source: Fables--The Fox at the Point of Death (l. 46)
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“My tongue within my lips I rein:
For who talks much must talk in vain.”
Talk Quotes Source: Introduction to the Fables (pt. I, l. 57)
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“To frame the little animal, provide
All the gay hues that wait on female pride:
Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire
The shining belles of the fly require;
The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail,
Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.”
Peacocks Quotes Source: Rural Sports (canto I, l. 177)
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“That Raven on yon left-hand oak
(Curse on his ill-betiding croak)
Bodes me no good.”
Ravens Quotes Source: Fables--The Farmer's Wife and the Raven
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“Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night.”
Moon Quotes Source: Trivia (bk. III)
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“What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air,
Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare.
Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food,
And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.”
Eating Quotes Source: Trivia (bk. III, l. 199)
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“How bless'd, how envied, were our life,
Could we but scape the poulterer's knife!
But man, curs'd man, on Turkeys preys,
And Christmas shortens all our days:
Sometimes with oysters we combine,
Sometimes assist the savory chine;
From the low peasant to the lord,
The Turkey smokes on every board.”
Christmas Quotes Source: Fables (pt. I, fable 39)
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“Envy's a sharper spur than pay:
No author ever spar'd a brother;
Wits are gamecocks to one another.”
Envy Quotes Source: Fables-The Elephant and the Bookseller (pt. I, fable 10, l. 74)
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“Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise.
For envy is a kind of praise.”
Envy Quotes Source: The Hound and the Huntsman
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“Studious of elegance and ease.”
Study Quotes Source: Fables (pt. II, no. 8)
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“For he as studious--of his ease.”
Study Quotes Source: Poems on Several Occasions (II, 49), (ed. 1752)
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“The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.”
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“Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.”
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“There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.”
Dependence Quotes |
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“Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.”
Melancholy Quotes |
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“Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose.”
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“I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame.”
Slander Quotes |
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“No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.”
Victory Quotes |
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