Jonathan Swift's Quotes

Jonathan Swift's Quotes 51

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few...

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets...

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is...

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Books, the children of the brain.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor...

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

May you live all the days of your life.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let...

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to...

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love...

May you live every day of your life.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness yet perhaps few...

I never saw heard nor read that the clergy were beloved in any nation...

We have enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one...

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable for the happy impute...

Power is no blessing in itself except when it is used to protect the innocent.

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