We were lucky to get out when we did.


Doug Gay

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Everything?s fine. We were lucky, and we were lucky to have that place (the senior center) to go to.
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I was a shy girl, but when I read, I was adventurous. Books made me bolder.
ROXANE GAY
Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There&#...
ROXANE GAY
Do like other widows - buy yourself weeds, and be cheerful.
JOHN GAY
Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise
JOHN GAY
The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met, / The judges all ranged (a terrible show!).
JOHN GAY
By ignorance is pride increased; Those most assume who know the least
JOHN GAY
(The bill) doesn't fix the system, it just focuses on enforcement.
JOHN GAY
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