The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
More Quotes by John Gay
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
Shadow owes its birth to light.
We only part to meet again.
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
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.