Jonathan Swift
42 quotations
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Come, agree, the law's costly.
May you live all the days of your life.
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
Observation is an old man's memory.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.