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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
— Jonathan Swift
Caesar freely confessed to me, that the greatest actions of his own life were not equal, by many degrees, to the glory of taking it away.
— Jonathan Swift
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
— Jonathan Swift
The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
— Jonathan Swift
I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.
— Jonathan Swift
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
— Jonathan Swift
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
— Jonathan Swift
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
— Jonathan Swift
All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
— Jonathan Swift
We have 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
The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
— Jonathan Swift
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
— Jonathan Swift
And, is not Virtue in MankindThe Nutriment that feeds the Mind? — Jonathan Swift
Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
— Jonathan Swift
God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
— Jonathan Swift
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
— Jonathan Swift
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
— Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
— Jonathan Swift
A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
— Jonathan Swift
Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
— Jonathan Swift
When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.
— Jonathan Swift
Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.
— Jonathan Swift
Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.
— Jonathan Swift
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
— Jonathan Swift
We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
— Jonathan Swift
Tis nothing when you are used to it.
— Jonathan Swift
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
— Jonathan Swift
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
— Jonathan Swift
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
— Jonathan Swift
"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.
— Jonathan Swift
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
— 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
I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.
— Jonathan Swift
The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.
— Jonathan Swift
The more careless, the more modish.
— Jonathan Swift
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
— Jonathan Swift
A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.
— Jonathan Swift
THE AUTHOR GIVES SOME ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF AND FAMILY:
— Jonathan Swift
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
Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
— Jonathan Swift
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
— Jonathan Swift
Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.
— Jonathan Swift
Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
— Jonathan Swift
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
— Jonathan Swift
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
— Jonathan Swift
Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.
— Jonathan Swift
A wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.
— Jonathan Swift
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
— Jonathan Swift
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
— Jonathan Kozol
A carpenter is known by his chips.
— Jonathan Swift
She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.
— Jonathan Swift
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
— Jonathan Swift
Books, the children of the brain.
— Jonathan Swift
I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.
— Jonathan Swift
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
— Jonathan Swift
A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.
— Jonathan Swift
When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
— Jonathan Swift
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
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
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
— Jonathan Swift
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
— Jonathan Swift
By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
— Jonathan Swift
Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs,Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. — Jonathan Swift
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
— Jonathan Swift
My hunger serves me instead of a clock.
— Jonathan Swift
The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
— Jonathan Swift
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
— Jonathan Swift
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
— Jonathan Swift
For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.
— Jonathan Swift
Many a truth is told in jest.
— Jonathan Swift
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
— Jonathan Swift
Words are the clothing of our thoughts.
— Jonathan Swift
Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.
— Jonathan Swift
I never knew any man cured of inattention.
— Jonathan Swift
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
— Jonathan Swift
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
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
— Jonathan Swift
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
— Jonathan Swift
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
— Jonathan Swift
Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.
— Jonathan Swift
From not the gravest of Divines,Accept for once some serious Lines. — Jonathan Swift
Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
— Jonathan Swift
