The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces… — 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
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for… — 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
I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune,… — 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
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