There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
JONATHAN SWIFTCruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
-
-
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
JONATHAN SWIFT -
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
JONATHAN SWIFT -
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
JONATHAN SWIFT -
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT -
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT -
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT -
Many a truth is told in jest.
JONATHAN SWIFT -
May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT -
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT -
It 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 SWIFT -
Perverseness is your whole defence.
JONATHAN SWIFT -
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT -
Vision is seeing the invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT -
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT -
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
JONATHAN SWIFT