We 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 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 SWIFTA tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
JONATHAN SWIFTWords are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
JONATHAN SWIFTYou cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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 SWIFTWe are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFTHow is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
JONATHAN SWIFTReason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
JONATHAN SWIFTMay you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFTBrisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
JONATHAN SWIFTEveryone desires long life, not one old age.
JONATHAN SWIFTLive every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
JONATHAN SWIFTYou should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
JONATHAN SWIFT