175 Total Quotes
Jonathan Swift Quotes
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are an imitation of fighting
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretenses to foretell events
No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before
Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit, Will condescend to take a bit
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.