John Gay Poet Quotations

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

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

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

She who has never loved has never lived.

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.