Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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The 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.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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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.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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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.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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