Jonathan Swift Quotes

Walk of life:Irish Poet

Born:30 November 1667, Dublin, Ireland

Died:19 October 1745, Dublin, Ireland

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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Fall Food Taste
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Corruption Politics Understand Word
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man Reason
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man See Shame Wickedness Wonder
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man Wisdom Young
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Cut Desire Need Shoes System
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Goodness Reason

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