Quotes by John Gay

"Praising all alike, is praising none."

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

"The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits."

"Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee."

"Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it."

"The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess."

"O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed: By keeping men off, you keep them on."

"A moment of time may make us unhappy forever."