Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it.
John Gay on Anniversary
1685–1732 England
9 quotes
Fables (1727)
Youth's the season made for joys,
Love is then our duty.
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
One wife is too much for most husbands to bear,
But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.
Beggar's Opera (1728)
They'll tell thee, sailors, when away,
In every port a mistress find.
Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.
Fables (1727)
If love be not his Guide,
He never will come back!
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Gay (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.