92 Quotations by Jonathan Swift
- 21. Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
- 22. For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every ...
- 23. Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
- 24. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu ...
- 25. He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
- 26. Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by ...
- 27. I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to prese ...
- 28. I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch ...
- 29. I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
- 30. I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ...
- 31. I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
- 32. I row after health like a waterman...
- 33. I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
- 34. I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib ...
- 35. I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
- 36. If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scou ...
- 37. Ill company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.
- 38. In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my he ...
- 39. In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju ...
- 40. Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, ...
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