Jonathan Swift
live day life
“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
genius dunce confederate
“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
― Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
religion hate love
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
― Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
jonathan Swift - vision
“Vision is the art of seeing the invisible”
— Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
desire live long old
“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”
― Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
useless reason out into man
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”
― Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
blessed expect nothing disappoint
“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
wicked nashamed
“I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”
― Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
law cobweb catch small flies wasps hornet
“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”
― Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
man wish younger age old
“No wise man ever wished to be younger. ”
― Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
ashamed admit wrong wiser
“You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday”
― Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
government consent slavery
“For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.”
― Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
life cure follies prejudices false opinion contracted
“The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.”
― Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
soldier yahoo kill species offended
“A soldier is a "Yahoo" hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can.”
― Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
doctor diet quiet merryman
“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”
― Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
marriage happy net cage
"The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages."
― Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
observation memory old
"Observation is an old man's memory."
― Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)