black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Jonathan Swift

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

Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Head Heart Man Wisdom
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Bold Eat Food Man
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
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
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Better Man Money
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
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
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fly Kind Man Thinking
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break Food Promise
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Myself Old
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

Believe Occasion Time Work
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

Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jonathan Swift Quotes