A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
JONATHAN SWIFTA tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
JONATHAN SWIFTWhen I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
JONATHAN SWIFTHe was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFTFor in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFTWe are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFTEvery day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
JONATHAN SWIFTYou cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFTArgument is the worst sort of conversation.
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 SWIFTI never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo wise man ever wished to be younger.
JONATHAN SWIFTLive every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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 SWIFTFor to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
JONATHAN SWIFT