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'While there is life, there's hope,' he cried; 'Then why such haste?' so groaned and died


John Gay

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MATTIE STEPANEK Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man doe...
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ELLEN HUANG That's why life is so much fun and I have such a good time.
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IGOR ELISEEV Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.
VICTORIA JACKSON I decided there and then to sue the bastards.
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JOAQUIN PHOENIX Is he following? Can you have a flaming gay moment or something and check?"
"Why do I have to b...
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ANDY DICK I think there was also a genuine change of heart, because then he started to know gay folk, and he c...
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BRENDA SHAFER There is no justification for such violence and loss of life. This is a terrible tragedy, and our co...
ANTONIO GUTERRES Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and me...
J.M. BARRIE And why does it smell like something DIED in the mud and is STILL in there rotting?
RACHEL RENéE RUSSELL While there's life, there's hope.
CICERO While there's life, there's hope.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO I hope whatever he chooses to do in life he works hard at it and then he will be OK.
JASON ROSTORFER He died sober. He died clean for the rest of his life. He ended his life the way we wanted him to be...
WALLIS HUTCHKO While we're very disappointed by the information we have received thus far, we remain determined to ...
BEN HATFIELD John Kerry and John Edwards would be smart to make their case for gay and lesbian fairness by not me...
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JAMES DEAN Alone in the forest, Katsa sat on a stump and cried. She cried like a person whose heart is broken a...
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HENRY ADAMCZYK Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
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SHERRILYN KENYON The girl who cried,
The friend who tried,
The boy who died.
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How it feels to be an unfunny clown."
And he told th...
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RON GARDINER I hope he chooses to say here. I think he's really hitting his stride and his term is not up until t...
BARBARA JOHNSON My truth is I am gay and out, and if I can't do that in my music, then I don't need it. Fort...
BILLY PORTER John Malkovich is such an interesting person and such a fun actor to work with.
LIAM HEMSWORTH The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and t...
WALTER SCOTT Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
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JOHN GAY How many saucy airs we meet, From Temple Bar to Aldgate street!
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JOHN GAY Learning by study must be won; '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 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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JOHN GAY Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.
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JOHN GAY Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
JOHN GAY How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of mora...
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JOHN GAY The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
JOHN GAY There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
JOHN GAY Shadow owes its birth to light.
JOHN GAY Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the ...
JOHN GAY We only part to meet again.
JOHN GAY Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
JOHN GAY But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the...
JOHN GAY Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
JOHN GAY A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a cont...
JOHN GAY Cowards are cruel, but the brave 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 ...
JOHN GAY What happiness the rural maid attends, 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 The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
JOHN GAY Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
JOHN GAY I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame.
JOHN GAY That Raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak) Bodes me no good.
JOHN GAY Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night.
JOHN GAY All in the Downs are fleet was moor'd.
JOHN GAY Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.
JOHN GAY My new straw hat that's trimly lin'd with green, Let Peggy wear.
JOHN GAY Over the hills and far away.
JOHN GAY To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let Nature gui...
JOHN GAY The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.
JOHN GAY The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
JOHN GAY "I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I!" "Not of the importance you ...
JOHN GAY Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.
JOHN GAY No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
JOHN GAY An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
JOHN GAY Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking slee...
JOHN GAY Thus shadow owes its birth to light.
JOHN GAY My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain.
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JOHN GAY From wine what sudden friendship springs?
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JOHN GAY Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, und...
JOHN GAY Adieu! she cries; and waved her lily hand.
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JOHN GAY Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation: Title and profit I r...
JOHN GAY Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
JOHN GAY In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all.
JOHN GAY I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame.
JOHN GAY Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
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JOHN GAY You'd have an instant decade-long waiting line.
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JOHN GAY Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise
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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
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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...
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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 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...
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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?
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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 How, like a moth, the simple maid / Still plays about the flame!
JOHN GAY Those who in quarrels interpose - Must often wipe a bloody nose
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JOHN GAY How happy could I be with either, / Were t'other dear charmer away! / But while ye thus tease me tog...
JOHN GAY If with me you'll fondly stray, / Over the hills and far away.
JOHN GAY It would impose fines of up to $25,000 for paperwork violations. How many businesses could withstand...
JOHN GAY I'll study the tape and see. It's the things we've worked on the last two weeks. We've had enough pr...
JOHN GAY We missed some shots during critical times of the game, and we also made some turnovers at crucial t...
JOHN GAY The girls knew exactly what was at stake. I don't know if the pressure of that got to 'em. I think t...
JOHN GAY I felt like we played a good game for the most part. But near the end, we played not to lose, instea...
JOHN GAY The people who own the country ought to govern it
JOHN GAY The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy
JOHN GAY We were able to settle down when we needed to.
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JOHN GAY What he was doing is unrecognizable compared to what I do on a day-to-day basis.
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JOHN GAY Our defense is key to us right now. We've got to play good defense. That's our driving force.
JOHN GAY Our Polly is a sad slut! nor heeds what we have taught her. / I wonder any man alive will ever rear ...
JOHN GAY On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
JOHN GAY In every age and clime we see, / Two of a trade can ne'er agree.
JOHN GAY Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty
JOHN GAY The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman; He that tast...
JOHN GAY Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil/ O'er books consumed the midnight oil?
JOHN GAY I rage, I melt, I burn, / The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart.
JOHN GAY Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outliv'd the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must ...
JOHN GAY I must have women / there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
JOHN GAY A fox may steal your hens, sir, / . . . If lawyer's hand is fee'd sir, / He steals your whole estate...
JOHN GAY Where yet was ever found a mother, / Who'd give her booby for another?
JOHN GAY Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, / And fires us / With courage, love and joy. / Women and win...
JOHN GAY I know you lawyers can, with ease, twist words and meanings as you please
JOHN GAY O ruddier than the cherry, / O sweeter than the berry, / O nymph more bright / Than moonshine night,...
JOHN GAY Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
JOHN GAY What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But...
JOHN GAY Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she f...
ROXANE GAY We were the only black family in my neighborhood for many years. Wherever we lived, we were often th...
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ROSS GAY Thirteen years I took on this last book.
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GAY TALESE Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.
GAY TALESE I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.
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GAY TALESE For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.
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GAY TALESE News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.
GAY TALESE I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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PETER GAY The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
GAY TALESE The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.
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GAY HENDRICKS I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.
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ROXANE GAY I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they&...
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ROXANE GAY Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink ...
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ROXANE GAY I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long ...
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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...
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ROXANE GAY I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not b...
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ROXANE GAY All too often, when we see injustices, both great and small, we think, That's terrible, but we do no...
ROXANE GAY I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to d...
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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...
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