John Gay: Quotes about life
John Gay was English poet and playwright. Explore interesting quotes on life.“While there is life there 's hope, he cried.”
Fable, The Sick Man and the Angel
Comparable to: "For the living there is hope, but for the dead there is none", Theocritus (3rd century BC), Idyl iv, 42; "Ægroto, dum anima est, spes est" ("While the sick man has life, there is hope", Cicero (1st century BC), Epistolarum ad Atticum, ix, 10
Fables (1727)
“Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it.”
My Own Epitaph, inscribed on Gay’s monument in Westminster Abbey; also quoted as "I thought so once; but now I know it".
Variant: Life is a jest, and all things show it,
I thought so once, and now I know it.
Peachum, Act I, air 1
The Beggar's Opera (1728)