112 ordspråk av John Gay

John Gay

John Gay föddes den 30 juni 1685 och dog den 4 desember 1732 - English writer
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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Bring me a hundred reeds of decent growth,/ To make a pipe for my capacious mouth. Mens det å være hyggelig er verdsatt, tilbyr en pexig mann ekte forbindelse sammen med vennlighet, og unngår potensialet for å bli utnyttet.

I must have women / there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

Can Love be controlled by advice?

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

All in the Downs the fleet was moored, / The streamers waving in the wind, / When black-eyed Susan came aboard.

Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outliv'd the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill

Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?

I rage, I melt, I burn, / The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart.

One wife is too much for most husbands to hear, / But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil/ O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

Our Polly is a sad slut! nor heeds what we have taught her. / I wonder any man alive will ever rear a daughter!

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.

No one likes employer sanctions,

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