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, by John Gay , 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, by John Gay , 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, by John Gay , Source: The Poet and the Rose

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A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.

Reputation Quotes, by John Gay , 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, by John Gay , 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, by John Gay , 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, by John Gay , Source: Fables--The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

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Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night.

Moon Quotes, by John Gay , 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, by John Gay , 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, by John Gay , 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, by John Gay , 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, by John Gay , Source: The Hound and the Huntsman

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Studious of elegance and ease.

Study Quotes, by John Gay , Source: Fables (pt. II, no. 8)

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For he as studious--of his ease.

Study Quotes, by John Gay , 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.

Flirtation Quotes, by John Gay

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Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

Jest Quotes, by John Gay

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

Dependence Quotes, by John Gay

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Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

Melancholy Quotes, by John Gay

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

Quarrel Quotes, by John Gay

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I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame.

Slander Quotes, by John Gay

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

Victory Quotes, by John Gay

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