Jonathan Swift Quotes

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

Jonathan Swift

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• I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Tired
  • Promise
  • Need

• Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.

  

  Bart Starr
  • Great
  • Business
  • Football

• We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Man
  • Honor
  • Random

• Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • Light
  • Honor

• I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Myself
  • Pride
  • Honor

• Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

  

  Walter Lang
  • God
  • Love
  • Promise

• We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Trying
  • America

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Advice
  • Promise

• The - I don't want to say older, but the more experienced I get, I treasure and I honor what I've done much more.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Done
  • Want
  • Honor

• I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Heroism

• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  

  Wade Davis
  • People
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Great
  • Today
  • Words

• If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Success
  • Wish

• Here was my city, immense, overpowering, flooded with energy and light... The world, at that moment , opened before me, challenging me, beckoning me, demanding something of me that it would take more than a lifetime to give, but raising all my energies by its own vivid promise to a higher pitch.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • World
  • Energy
  • Light

• I think God asks us to promise to replenish the planet and to pay 100% attention to our young so that they will develop character and a good conscience.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Good
  • God
  • Character

• Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

  

  Bradley Whitford
  • Life
  • High
  • Hope

• We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Justice
  • Moral
  • Honor

• Ambitio multos mortales falsos fieri subegit, aliud clausum in pectore, aliud in lingua promptum habere, amicitias inimicitiasque non ex re, sed ex commodo aestimare, magisque vultum quam ingenium bonum habere.

  

  Sallust

• Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Hand

• I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Believe
  • Dad
  • Like

• Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Honor
  • Promise
  • Regard