I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFTI never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
JONATHAN SWIFTMany a truth is told in jest.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
JONATHAN SWIFTNothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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 are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFTAnd surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
JONATHAN SWIFTA tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
JONATHAN SWIFTIf you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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 SWIFTPolitics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
JONATHAN SWIFTI’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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 SWIFTLaws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFTDon’t set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFT