Jonathan Swift Quotes

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We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Jonathan Swift
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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May you live every day of your life.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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I row after health like a waterman...
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.
Jonathan Swift
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
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How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.
Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
Jonathan Swift
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
Jonathan Swift
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift