I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted. — 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
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
Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to… — 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
