92 Quotations by Jonathan Swift
- 41. It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a ...
- 42. It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguishe ...
- 43. It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have ...
- 44. It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdo ...
- 45. It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
- 46. It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
- 47. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
- 48. May you live all the days of your life.
- 49. Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
- 50. Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
- 51. No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- 52. Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a ...
- 53. Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you pleas ...
- 54. Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
- 55. O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast gre ...
- 56. Observation is an old man's memory.
- 57. One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
- 58. One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonab ...
- 59. One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish h ...
- 60. Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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