This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is… — 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
