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Jonathan Swift quotes: and the first words I learnt, were to express my desire "that he would please give me my liberty;" which I every day repeated on my knees. His and the first words I learnt, were to express my desire "that he would please give me my liberty;" which I every day repeated on my knees. His
Jonathan Swift quotes: There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
Jonathan Swift quotes: You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
Jonathan Swift quotes: The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at. The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
Jonathan Swift quotes: All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next year's revenue. All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next year's revenue.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind. Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
Jonathan Swift quotes: He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of. He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.
Jonathan Swift quotes: May you live every day of your life. May you live every day of your life.
Jonathan Swift quotes: There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency. There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age ...
Jonathan Swift quotes: Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise. Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
Jonathan Swift quotes: All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits. All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
Jonathan Swift quotes: The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little. The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
Jonathan Swift quotes: If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time. If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
Jonathan Swift quotes: And, is not Virtue in MankindThe Nutriment that feeds the Mind? And, is not Virtue in Mankind
The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?
Jonathan Swift quotes: When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds. When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.
Jonathan Swift quotes: I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite. I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
Jonathan Swift quotes: A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone. A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.
Jonathan Swift quotes: One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us. One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies. Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
Jonathan Swift quotes: We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking. We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Real vision is the ability to see the invisible. Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend. Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
Jonathan Swift quotes: They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last. Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years. Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.
Jonathan Swift quotes: No wise man ever wished to be younger. No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift quotes: 'T is 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. 'T is 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 quotes: Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Jonathan Swift quotes: A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces. A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad. Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue. Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.
Jonathan Swift quotes: It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another. It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
Jonathan Swift quotes: As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. 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 quotes: There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure. There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature. Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.
Jonathan Swift quotes: We have an intuitive sense of our duty. We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Tis nothing when you are used to it. Tis nothing when you are used to it.
Jonathan Swift quotes: He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue. He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Observation is an old man's memory. Observation is an old man's memory.
Jonathan Swift quotes: "Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law. "Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.
Jonathan Swift quotes: The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking. The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
Jonathan Swift quotes: From not the gravest of Divines,Accept for once some serious Lines. From not the gravest of Divines,
Accept for once some serious Lines.
Jonathan Swift quotes: T is as cheap sitting as standing. T is as cheap sitting as standing.
Jonathan Swift quotes: That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
Jonathan Swift quotes: I row after health like a waterman ... I row after health like a waterman ...
Jonathan Swift quotes: It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider. It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift quotes: There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy. There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Jonathan Swift quotes: I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life. Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
Jonathan Swift quotes: It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many. It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow. Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
Jonathan Swift quotes: He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift quotes: She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse. She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.
Jonathan Swift quotes: A college joke to cure the dumps. A college joke to cure the dumps.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse. Truth shines the brighter clad in verse.
Jonathan Swift quotes: I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen. I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.
Jonathan Swift quotes: I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be. Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
Jonathan Swift quotes: It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it. It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
Jonathan Swift quotes: An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever. An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.
Jonathan Swift quotes: A carpenter is known by his chips. A carpenter is known by his chips.
Jonathan Swift quotes: All disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink. All disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink.
Jonathan Swift quotes: The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it. The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
Jonathan Swift quotes: To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then. To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
Jonathan Swift quotes: If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them. If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
Jonathan Swift quotes: A favor is half granted, when graciously refused. A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Bread is the staff of life. Bread is the staff of life.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted. Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.
Jonathan Swift quotes: You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place. You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners. Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.
Jonathan Swift quotes: It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work. It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Philosophy! the lumber of the schools. Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
Jonathan Swift quotes: A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift quotes: An atheist has got one point beyond the devil. An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.
Jonathan Swift quotes: It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not. It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion. Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies. Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.
Jonathan Swift quotes: truth, justice, temperance, and truth, justice, temperance, and
Jonathan Swift quotes: The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting. The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
Jonathan Swift quotes: If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels. If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels.
Jonathan Swift quotes: As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
Jonathan Swift 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. 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 quotes: I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade. I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.
Jonathan Swift quotes: 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. 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 quotes: that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of
Jonathan Swift quotes: A pleasant companion is as good as a coach. A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Everyone desires long life, not one old age. Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato. Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.
Jonathan Swift quotes: All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy. All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
Jonathan Swift quotes: Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

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