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Best Men Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing…
- There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
- Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.
- Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
- A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
- He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
- Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
- No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where…
- I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
- Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and…
- I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
- Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
- Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
- Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
- It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
- Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
- No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
- Observation is an old man's memory.
- Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.
- Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
- I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but…
- If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
- It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
- Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes…
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