Quote #3

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

More from John Gay

  1. My lodging is on the cold ground, And hard, very hard, is my fare, But that which grieves me more Is the coldness of my dear.
  2. Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it.
  3. 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.
  4. Whence thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?
  5. Where yet was ever found a mother Who'd give her booby for another?
  6. When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.
  7. In beauty faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow.
  8. In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.

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