Having a significant amount of credit card debt may not be a problem unless you lose your job, your house burns down or you get caught in a hurricane. If you don't have any cushion, you can get hit really hard.


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Praising all alike, is praising none
JOHN GAY
I felt good if they ran the 1-3-1 against the offense we're using. Then we went out there and didn't...
JOHN GAY
No one likes employer sanctions,
JOHN GAY
What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Bl...
JOHN GAY
When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedi...
JOHN GAY
By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.
JOHN GAY
Originality provokes originality.
JOHN GAY
A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
JOHN GAY
'While there is life, there's hope,' he cried; 'Then why such haste?' so groaned and died
JOHN GAY
To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman
JOHN GAY
'Tis woman that seduces all mankind, / By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
JOHN GAY
When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction
JOHN GAY
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect...
JOHN GAY
We only part to meet again. / Change, as ye list, ye winds; my heart shall be / The faithful compass...
JOHN GAY
We are frustrated with the broken immigration system. It doesn't match the economic reality.
JOHN GAY
A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Si...
JOHN GAY
Employers are frustrated because there is so much paperwork and oftentimes you don't know if things ...
JOHN GAY
I sipped each flower, / I changed ev'ry hour, / But here ev'ry flower is united.
JOHN GAY
Bring me a hundred reeds of decent growth,/ To make a pipe for my capacious mouth.
JOHN GAY
Can Love be controlled by advice?
JOHN GAY
All in the Downs the fleet was moored, / The streamers waving in the wind, / When black-eyed Susan c...
JOHN GAY
One wife is too much for most husbands to hear, / But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.
JOHN GAY
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, the mist is dispelled when a woman appears
JOHN GAY
Corruption's not for modern date; It hath been tried in ev'ry state
JOHN GAY
Envy's a sharper spur than pay
JOHN GAY
What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes
JOHN GAY
In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; the smallest speck is seen on snow
JOHN GAY
She who has never loved has never lived.
JOHN GAY
The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.
JOHN GAY
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
JOHN GAY
There’s folks you just don’t need. You’re better off without em. Your life is just a little be...
WILLIAM GAY
It's hard not to feel humorless, as a woman and a feminist, to recognize misogyny in so many forms, ...
ROXANE GAY
Perhaps a candle fell over and started a fire. Whether that's intentional or not is to be determined...
DOUG GAY
He got kicked several times. He was walking bowlegged for awhile,
DOUG GAY