"The reason why so few marriages are happy……" — Jonathan Swift
"The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages."
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271 Quotes by Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift has 271 quotes on this site.
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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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More Cages Quotes
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one of 367 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
— Harry Belafonte
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Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name…
— Nicolas Cage
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A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of…
— Millicent Fenwick
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I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the…
— Will Arnett
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.
— Gerry Cheevers
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
— Michel de Montaigne
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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and…
— James A. Baldwin
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I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we…
— Mike Tyson
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