92 Quotations by Jonathan Swift
- 1. A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e ...
- 2. A wise man ought to have money in his head, but not in his heart.
- 3. A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
- 4. All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
- 5. Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. ...
- 6. Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positio ...
- 7. And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to ...
- 8. Argument is the worst sort of conversation
- 9. Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the wor ...
- 10. As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a ...
- 11. As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
- 12. Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
- 13. But when a Man's Fancy gets astride on his Reason, when Imagination is at Cuffs with the Senses, and ...
- 14. But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into ...
- 15. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
- 16. Come, agree, the law's costly.
- 17. Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
- 18. Don't set your wit against a child.
- 19. Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
- 20. Faith! He must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
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