Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
JONATHAN SWIFTPositiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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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.
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Every dog must have his day.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Good 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.
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