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Jonathan Swift Quotes


There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

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

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

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

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

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

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.