One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFTOne enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFTI never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFTNothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFTDon’t set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFTEveryone desires long life, not one old age.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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 SWIFTThe stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFTBooks, the children of the brain.
JONATHAN SWIFTParty is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
JONATHAN SWIFTAlthough men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
JONATHAN SWIFTPolitics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
JONATHAN SWIFT