We only part to meet again.
John Gay
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
Shadow owes its birth to light.
She who has never loved has never lived.
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.
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
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.
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.
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
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.
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.