Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFTPromises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
JONATHAN SWIFTVision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt 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 SWIFTWe have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFTEvery dog must have his day.
JONATHAN SWIFTI’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
JONATHAN SWIFTA nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
JONATHAN SWIFTYou cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFTReasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
JONATHAN SWIFTThere is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
JONATHAN SWIFTBrisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
JONATHAN SWIFTI never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFTOne enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
JONATHAN SWIFT