222 Quotes by John Gay

You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.

I know you lawyers can, with ease, twist words and meanings as you please

I'll study the tape and see. It's the things we've worked on the last two weeks. We've had enough practice time the last two weeks to start over and be ready to play a new season. We just stunk it up.

I rage, I melt, I burn, / The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart.

In every age and clime we see, / Two of a trade can ne'er agree.

By ignorance is pride increased; Those most assume who know the least

How, like a moth, the simple maid / Still plays about the flame!

How happy could I be with either, / Were t'other dear charmer away! / But while ye thus tease me together, / To neither a word will I say.

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.