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Men Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
- When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
- This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was…
- I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the…
- For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.
- 'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend…
- Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five…
- For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little…
- In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be…
- Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
- It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
- If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know…
- A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
- Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
- Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
- Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble…
- I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front…
- Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are…
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