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Mittwoch, 16. September 2015

Happy Birthday John Gay!

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

Das aufrichtigste Mitgefühl empfindet, wer den Schmerz aus eigener Erfahrung kennt.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

Neid ist ein stärkerer Ansporn als Geld.

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

Das Leben ist ein Scherz; und alles weist darauf hin. So habe ich früher gedacht; doch heute weiß ich es.

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

Vornehmheit ist nichts als alter Reichtum.

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.

Das aufrichtigste Mitgefühl empfindet, wer den Schmerz aus eigener Erfahrung kennt.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

Messe nicht mein Korn mit deinem Scheffel.

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

Neid ist eine Art Lob.

We only part to meet again.

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

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

She who has never loved has never lived.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.

I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

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

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