| "May you live every day of your life." Jonathan Swift Adages |
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| "The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes." Jonathan Swift Remarks |
| 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit, Will condescend to take a bit Jonathan Swift |
'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to take a bit. Jonathan Swift Adages |
| A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in w Jonathan Swift |
| A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses Jonathan Swift |
| A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. Jonathan Swift |
| A lie is an excuse guarded Jonathan Swift |
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| A lie is an excuse guarded. Jonathan Swift Adages |
| A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday. Jonathan Swift Quotations |
| A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. Jonathan Swift |
| A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. Jonathan Swift |
| Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. Jonathan Swift |
| And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole Jonathan Swift |
| Argument is the worst sort of conversation. Jonathan Swift Quotations |
| As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. Jonathan Swift Quotations |
| Bachelor's fare: Bread, cheese, and kisses Jonathan Swift |
| Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Jonathan Swift Adages |
| Books, The Children of the brain. Jonathan Swift Popular Quotes |
| But when a Man’s Fancy gets astride on his Reason, when Imagination is at Cuffs with the Senses, and common Understanding, as well as common Sense, is Kickt out of Doors; the first Proselyte he makes, is Himself, and when that is once compass’d, the Difficulty is not so great in bringing over others; a strong Delusion always operating from without, as vigorously as from within. Jonathan Swift Adages |
| Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical. Jonathan Swift Quotes |
| Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. Jonathan Swift Quotes |
| Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown; No more I hear my church's bell Than if it rang out for my knell; At thunder now no more I start Than at the rumbling of a cart Jonathan Swift Quotes |
| Every dog must have his day. Jonathan Swift |
| Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. Jonathan Swift Sayings |
| Fine words! I wonder where you stole them Jonathan Swift |
| For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. Jonathan Swift Adages |
For the rest,
Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. Jonathan Swift |
| Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived. Jonathan Swift Quotations |
| How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning? Jonathan Swift |
| I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world. Jonathan Swift Quotes |
| I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. Jonathan Swift Remarks |
| I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand Jonathan Swift |
| I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. Jonathan Swift Quotes |
| I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. Jonathan Swift Sayings |
| I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. Jonathan Swift Sayings |
| I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed Jonathan Swift Quotations |
| I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. Jonathan Swift Sayings |
| I wont quarrel with my bread and butter. Jonathan Swift |
| I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one. Jonathan Swift |
| If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time Jonathan Swift |
| Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. Jonathan Swift Remarks |
| It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. Jonathan Swift |
| It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Jonathan Swift Quotations |
| It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. Jonathan Swift |
| It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into Jonathan Swift Adages |
| Just get the right syllable in the proper place. Jonathan Swift Popular Quotes |
| Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them Jonathan Swift |
| Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Jonathan Swift |
| Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. Jonathan Swift |
| May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift Adages |
| May you live every day of your life. Jonathan Swift |
| Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are an imitation of fighting Jonathan Swift Popular Quotes |
| My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool. Jonathan Swift |
| No wise man ever wished to be younger. Jonathan Swift Popular Quotes |
| Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. Jonathan Swift Quotes |
| Observation is an old man's memory. Jonathan Swift Popular Quotes |
| One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. Jonathan Swift Adages |
| One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid Jonathan Swift |
| Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruption. Jonathan Swift |
| Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. Jonathan Swift Sayings |
| Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of style. Jonathan Swift Remarks |
| Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off Jonathan Swift |
Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will affront,
What man alive can stand the brunt? Jonathan Swift |
| Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. Jonathan Swift |
| She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. Jonathan Swift Quotes |
| She wears her clothes as if they are thrown on with a pitchfork Jonathan Swift Popular Quotes |
| Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. Jonathan Swift Remarks |
| Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky Jonathan Swift |
| The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing Jonathan Swift Quotes |
| The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former. Jonathan Swift |
| The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. Jonathan Swift |
| There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say Jonathan Swift |
| There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. Jonathan Swift Quotes |
| This is every cook's opinion -
no savory dish without an onion,
but lest your kissing should be spoiled
your onions must be fully boiled. Jonathan Swift |
This is every cook's opinion -
no savory dish without an onion,
but lest your kissing should be spoiled
your onions must be fully boiled.
Jonathan Swift |
| Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it. Jonathan Swift Remarks |
| Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. Jonathan Swift Adages |
| Usually speaking, the worst bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad Jonathan Swift Popular Quotes |
| Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage; and they were always mortal enemies Jonathan Swift |
| Vision is the art of seeing the invisible. Jonathan Swift |
| Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift Sayings |
| Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. Jonathan Swift |
| War! that mad game the world so loves to play. Jonathan Swift |
| We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Jonathan Swift |
| We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Jonathan Swift |
| We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love. Jonathan Swift |
| What some invent, the rest enlarge. Jonathan Swift |
| When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift Remarks |
| When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift |
| When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. Jonathan Swift Adages |
| When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore. Jonathan Swift Sayings |
| Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath. Jonathan Swift |
| Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. Jonathan Swift |
| Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together Jonathan Swift |
| Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail. Jonathan Swift Remarks |
