Gay Games VII

Famous quotes containing the words gay, games and/or vii:

    If love the virgin’s heart invade,
    How, like a moth, the simple maid
    Still plays about the flame!
    —John Gay (1685–1732)

    At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.
    Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
    —Pope Gregory VII (c. 1020–1085)