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Can give the heart a cheerful hour
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From Temple Bar to Aldgate street!
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Of surfeits, and corporeal pain?
He barr'd from every use...
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'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.
JOHN GAY A man should be religious, not superstitious.
JOHN GAY Who friendship with a knave hath made,
Is judg'd a partner in the trade.
JOHN GAY In every age and clime we see,
Two of a trade can ne'er agree.
JOHN GAY The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
GAY TALESE O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
JOHN GAY Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
JOHN GAY I must have women -- there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
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GAY HENDRICKS Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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Love mercy, and delight to save.
JOHN GAY With thee conversing I forget the way.
JOHN GAY I never, with important air,
In conversation overbear.
. . . .
My tongue within my lips ...
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In cheerful labour while each day she spends!
She grate...
JOHN GAY How bless'd, how envied, were our life,
Could we but scape the poulterer's knife!
But man, cur...
JOHN GAY There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self
JOHN GAY Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows,
Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.
JOHN GAY The brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.
JOHN GAY The rising blushes, which her cheek o'er-spread,
Are opening roses in the lily's bed.
JOHN GAY The careful insect 'midst his works I view,
Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,
Wit...
JOHN GAY Reproachful speech from either side
The want of argument supplied;
They rail, reviled; as ofte...
JOHN GAY Excuse me, then! you know my heart;
But dearest friends, alas! must part.
JOHN GAY A justice with grave justices shall sit;
He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.
JOHN GAY A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.
JOHN GAY What boots it on the lineal tree to trace
Through many a branch the founders of our race.
JOHN GAY If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the
wind for revealing them to the tree...
JOHN GAY So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.
JOHN GAY For he as studious--of his ease.
JOHN GAY Studious of elegance and ease.
JOHN GAY Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.
JOHN GAY When rogues like these (a sparrow cries)
To honours and employments rise,
I court no favor, as...
JOHN GAY In other men we faults may spy,
And blame the mote that dims their eye;
Each little speck and ...
JOHN GAY Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
JOHN GAY Impartially their talents scan,
Just education forms the man.
- John Gay,
JOHN GAY Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.
JOHN GAY Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise.
For envy is a kind of praise.
JOHN GAY Envy's a sharper spur than pay:
No author ever spar'd a brother;
Wits are gamecocks to one ano...
JOHN GAY I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.
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ROXANE GAY There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I...
ROSS GAY I eat 230 grams of protein daily, 308 grams of carbohydrates, maybe 70 grams of fat. I can have one ...
TYSON GAY It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be a...
ROXANE GAY We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on...
ROXANE GAY I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not b...
ROXANE GAY It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the ca...
ROXANE GAY I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another's fame.
JOHN GAY All too often, when we see injustices, both great and small, we think, That's terrible, but we do no...
ROXANE GAY That Raven on yon left-hand oak
(Curse on his ill-betiding croak)
Bodes me no good.
JOHN GAY I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to d...
TYSON GAY The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-wa...
GAY TALESE A little girl and her father were walking along in the evening. She was fascinated by the stars, and...
FRANCIS GAY I cut an imposing figure. I am large, and I'm tall, and I have tattoos. I am actually really qui...
ROXANE GAY I am totally down with disagreement. I don't like Haterade, but disagreement is wonderful. When ...
ROXANE GAY It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the e...
ROXANE GAY When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are deg...
ROXANE GAY