You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFTYou cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFTMany a truth is told in jest.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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 SWIFTThis made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
JONATHAN SWIFTReligion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt 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 SWIFTWe of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
JONATHAN SWIFTNothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFTWhen I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
JONATHAN SWIFTSmall causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
JONATHAN SWIFT