Quote #6

Where yet was ever found a mother Who'd give her booby for another?

More from John Gay

  1. Whence thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?
  2. When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.
  3. Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it.
  4. In beauty faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow.
  5. No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
  6. In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.
  7. 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.
  8. Those who in quarrels intepose Must often wipe a bloody nose.

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