John Gay - Mother Quotes

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Where yet was ever found a mother
Who'd give her booby for another?

John Gay

Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married?

John Gay

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

John Gay