John Gay Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.

  John Gay

  Love, Joy, Youth

  'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) act 2, sc. 4, air 22

• Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us,
  And fires us
  With courage, love and joy.
  Women and wine should life employ.
  Is there ought else on earth desirous?

  John Gay

  Life, Courage, Wine

  'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) act 2, sc. 1, air 19

• Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.

  John Gay

  Book, Flames, Joy

  John Gay (1863). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Life of the Author”, p.129

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