How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
For, what though his Head be empty, provided his Common place-Book be full... — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
