Jonathan Swift Quotes

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• A carpenter is known by his chips.
• The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
• The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.…
• The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
• A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to…
• I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
• The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
• I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
• Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
• It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
• Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by…
• Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain…
• No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to…
• Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
• Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
• All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next year's revenue.
• She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
• Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please…
• Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
• If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what…

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