Jonathan Swift Quotes

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
– Jonathan Swift

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Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
– Jonathan Swift

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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
– Jonathan Swift

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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
– Jonathan Swift

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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
– Jonathan Swift

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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
– Jonathan Swift

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
– Jonathan Swift

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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
– Jonathan Swift

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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
– Jonathan Swift

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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
– Jonathan Swift

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Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
– Jonathan Swift

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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.
– Jonathan Swift

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Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.
– Jonathan Swift

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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
– Jonathan Swift

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A lie is an excuse guarded.
– Jonathan Swift

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Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.
– Jonathan Swift

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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
– Jonathan Swift

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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
– Jonathan Swift

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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
– Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Irish-born English satirist.

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Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
– Jonathan Swift

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And he gave it for his opinion, “that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
– Jonathan Swift

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Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
– Jonathan Swift

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