Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
JONATHAN SWIFTLive every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
JONATHAN SWIFTPoor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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 SWIFTWhen a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
JONATHAN SWIFTEveryone desires long life, not one old age.
JONATHAN SWIFTWe have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
JONATHAN SWIFTGood manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
JONATHAN SWIFTReligion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
JONATHAN SWIFTPhysicians 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 SWIFTNothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
JONATHAN SWIFTBrisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
JONATHAN SWIFTCruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo wise man ever wished to be younger.
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