No wise man ever wished to be younger.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo wise man ever wished to be younger.
JONATHAN SWIFTThat the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
JONATHAN SWIFTIf you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFTNothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
JONATHAN SWIFTHe was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFTEvery dog must have his day.
JONATHAN SWIFTReasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
JONATHAN SWIFTPromises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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 SWIFTWhen a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
JONATHAN SWIFTI love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
JONATHAN SWIFTAle is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
JONATHAN SWIFTCruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
JONATHAN SWIFT