Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Jonathan Swift quotes, Jonathan Swift sayings, and Jonathan Swift proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.Jonathan Swift
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.Jonathan Swift
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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.Jonathan Swift
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.Jonathan Swift
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Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.Jonathan Swift
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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.Jonathan Swift
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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.Jonathan Swift
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.Jonathan Swift
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There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.Jonathan Swift
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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.Jonathan Swift
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Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.Jonathan Swift
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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.Jonathan Swift
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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.Jonathan Swift
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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.Jonathan Swift
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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.Jonathan Swift
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The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.Jonathan Swift
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.Jonathan Swift
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It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.Jonathan Swift
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Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.Jonathan Swift
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A carpenter is known by his chips.Jonathan Swift
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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.Jonathan Swift
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The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.Jonathan Swift
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Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.Jonathan Swift
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Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine.Jonathan Swift
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Observation is an old man's memory.Jonathan Swift
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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.Jonathan Swift
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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.Jonathan Swift
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Bread is the staff of life.Jonathan Swift
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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.Jonathan Swift
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One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.Jonathan Swift