Memorable Quotes and quotations from Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 - 1745)Jonathan Swift - - We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other. Jonathan Swift - - It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Jonathan Swift - - As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. Jonathan Swift - - It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Jonathan Swift - - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift - A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1709) - There is nothing in this world constant, but inconsistancy. Jonathan Swift - - No wise man ever wished to be younger. Jonathan Swift - - I row after health like a waterman... Jonathan Swift - - Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived. Jonathan Swift - - A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. Jonathan Swift - Thoughts on Various Subjects - When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift - - The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. Jonathan Swift - "A Modest Proposal" - I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout. Jonathan Swift - - We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another. Jonathan Swift - - He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. Jonathan Swift - Miscellanies, 1711 - Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. Jonathan Swift - - May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift - - One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. Jonathan Swift - - When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift - - I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. Jonathan Swift - - Fine words! I wonder where you stole them. Jonathan Swift - Thoughts on Various Subjects - When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. |
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