So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Atlas, we read in ancient song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained,… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — 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 easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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 Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
