Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their… — 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
In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“they will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to his mother for… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Whatever reader desires to have a thorough comprehension of an author's thoughts cannot take a better method than by putting himself into… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
No man was every so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but… — 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
