They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in… — 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
