Human Performance Quotes by Jonathan Swift

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

“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

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

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

— Jonathan Swift

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

— Jonathan Swift

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

A lie is an excuse guarded

— Jonathan Swift

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

May you live every day of your life.

— Jonathan Swift

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

— Jonathan Swift

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

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

“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

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

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