Jonathan Swift Quotes

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

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.

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

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

May you live all the days of your life.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

I row after health like a waterman...

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

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

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

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

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem

Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

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

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before

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.

May you live every day of your life.

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