105 ordspråk av John Gay
John Gay
John Gay föddes den June 30th 1685 och dog den 4 December 1732 - English writer
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 'Tis a gross error held in schools, That Fortune always favors fools |
| 'Tis woman that seduces all mankind, / By her we first were taught the wheedling arts. |
| 'While there is life, there's hope,' he cried; 'Then why such haste?' so groaned and died |
| (The bill) doesn't fix the system, it just focuses on enforcement. |
| A fox may steal your hens, sir, / . . . If lawyer's hand is fee'd sir, / He steals your whole estate. |
| A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Sir, your wife may steal your rest, Sir, a thief your goods and plate. But this is all but picking, with rest, pence, chest and chicken; it ever was decreed, Sir, if lawyer's hand is fee d, Sir, he steals your whole estate. |
| A moment of time may make us unhappy forever |
| A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. |
| Adieu! she cries; and waved her lily hand. |
| All in the Downs the fleet was moored, / The streamers waving in the wind, / When black-eyed Susan came aboard. |
| An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse. |
| And when a lady's in the case, / You know, all other things give place. |
| Bring me a hundred reeds of decent growth,/ To make a pipe for my capacious mouth. |
| But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest. |
| But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out. |
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