"I wonder what fool it was that first…" — Jonathan Swift
"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."
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271 Quotes by Jonathan Swift
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot,…
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot,…
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales…
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his…
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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its…
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out…
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their…
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery…
— Charles Lamb
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The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . .…
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From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that…
— David Hume
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Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all,…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and…
— Phyllis McGinley
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Accurst be he that first invented war.
— Christopher Marlowe
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I have one thing in common with the person who first invented an airplane; he knew one thing that I…
— London Mond
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Blessing on him that first invented sleep!
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