Jonathan Swift Quotes
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. 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. A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. 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. As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Books, the children of the brain. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Don't set your wit against a child. Every dog must have his day. Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. 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. He was a bold man that first eat on oyster. He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue. Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
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