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)