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.'
Beauty, like supreme dominion is best supported by opinion. Jonathan Swift
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.Jonathan Swift
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One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid. Jonathan Swift
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I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.Jonathan Swift
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Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.Jonathan Swift
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Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love.Jonathan Swift
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When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.Jonathan Swift
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If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time.Jonathan Swift
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But gold defiles with frequent touch / There's nothing fouls the hand so much / And scholars give it for the cause / Of British Midas' dirty paws.Jonathan Swift
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Midas, we are in story told / Turn'd every thing he touch'd to gold / He chipp'd his bread; the pieces round / Glitter'd like spangles on the ground.Jonathan Swift
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Old hay is equal to old gold / And hence a critic deep maintains / We learn'd to weigh our gold by grains.Jonathan Swift
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Every man desires to live long, but no man would to be old.Jonathan Swift
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For want of room by Virgo's side, she'll strain a point, and sit astride, to take thee kindly in between; and then the signs will be thirteen.Jonathan Swift
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He at fit periods walk through Aries, however our earthly motions varies.Jonathan Swift
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Or darns his hose, or mends his breeches, While Harry's fencing up his ditches.Jonathan Swift
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I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he showed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.Jonathan Swift
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The more careless, the more modish.Jonathan Swift
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One of the best rules of conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.Jonathan Swift
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No length of time can make you quit / Honour and virtue, sense and wit, / Thus you may still be young to me, / While I can better hear than see; / Oh, ne'er may fortune show her spite, / To make me deaf, and mend my sight. 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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No length of time can make you quit, / Honour and virtue, sense and wit, / Thus you may still be young to me, / While I can better hear than see; / Oh, ne'er may fortune show her spite, / To make me deaf, and mend my sight. Jonathan Swift
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All's well, what's a rainy day? / Never mind that cloud, behind that cloud you'll find a golden ray.Jonathan Swift
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.Jonathan Swift
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Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.Jonathan Swift
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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.Jonathan Swift
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Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. Jonathan Swift
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Our passion are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.Jonathan Swift
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.Jonathan Swift
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Mere rhetoric in serious discourses, is like flowers in corn, pleasing to those who look only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it. Jonathan Swift
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Style may be defined, 'proper words in proper places.' Jonathan Swift