Jonathan Swift Quotes

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

Jonathan Swift

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• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Friendship

• Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

  

  Lactantius
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Authority

• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Great
  • Book
  • Truth

• All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Islam

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

  

  Eamonn Walker
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Acting

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Friends
  • Artists

• The only time I eat alone is if I'm really tired or upset about something or on the phone to one of my friends, when it's easier to be alone. But you can't be too wrapped up in yourself... it starts making you look a little bit prima donna.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Understand

• Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Truth
  • Moral
  • Truth Is

• Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Remember

• Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • People
  • Truth
  • Desire

• Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Past

• You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

  

  Maimonides
  • Truth
  • You
  • Accept

• On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Friends
  • Nature
  • Green

• Boys, do you hear that musketry and that artillery? It means that our friends are falling by the hundreds at the hands of the enemy, and here we are guarding a damned creek! Let's go and help them. What do you say?

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Enemy

• Our most urgent problem just now is how to preserve in a positive and critical form the soul of truth in the two great traditions, classical and Christian, that are crumbling as mere dogma.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Soul

• Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• All she had to do was tell the truth. This would be easy. I should've known, though. Real truth is never easy -Lily

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Never

• The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that.

  

  Brian Houston
  • Friends
  • Decisions
  • Relationships

• The Male Teacher Corps not only exposes children to men from a variety of professions, but exposes children to men with more risk-taking, entrepreneurial male energy and values, creating a balance between exposure to the male and female value systems.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Children
  • Energy

• For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Speak
  • Depression
  • Eating

• Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Truth
  • Friends
  • Private Ends