black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Human Nature Oneself Talent
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Consistency One Liner World
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Mistake Person Responsibility
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Learning Wind Word
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Head Heart Man Wisdom
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ideas Man One Liner
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
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

Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
Vision is seeing the invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Invisible One Liner Vision
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Corruption Politics Understand Word
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
JONATHAN SWIFT

Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jonathan Swift Quotes