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Jonathan Swift [1667-1745] Irish

Rank: 11
Poet (with poems), Essayist

Children, Didactism, Enlightenment, Neoclassicism, Satire

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

Anniversary, Food, Religion, Age, Art, Best, Diet, Education, Government, Great, Humor, Intelligence, Learning, Legal, Money, Morning, Nature, Politics, Power, Strength

Quote	Tags	Rank
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.	Art	101
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.	Money	102
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.	Learning	103
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.		104
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.		105
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.		106
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.		107
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.		108
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.		109
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.	Great	110
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.		111
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.	Religion	112
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.		113
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.		114
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 woman asunder.	Anniversary	115
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.	Nature	116
Books, the children of the brain.	Education	117
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.		118
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.	Morning	119
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.	Best, Diet	120
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.		121
May you live all the days of your life.	Anniversary	122
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.		123
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.	Food	124
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.	Intelligence	125
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.		126
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.		201
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.	Power	202
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.		203
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.		204
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.		205
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.		206
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.	Government	207
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.		208
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.	Food	209
No wise man ever wished to be younger.		210
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.		211
Don't set your wit against a child.		212
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.		213
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 sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.	Strength	214
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.		215
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.	Religion	216
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.		217
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.		218
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.	Politics	219
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.		220
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.		221
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.		222
Every dog must have his day.		223
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.		224
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.		225
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.		226
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.		301
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.		302
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.		303
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.		304
Observation is an old man's memory.		305
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.		306
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.		307
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.		308
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.		309
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.		310
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.		311
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.		312
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.	Legal	313
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.	Humor	314
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.	Age	315
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.		316

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