Jonathan Swift Quotes

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Jonathan Swift

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• My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Hard Work

• Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Important
  • America
  • Success

• I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Individual
  • Victims
  • Hypocrisy

• We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Law
  • Stop
  • Will

• I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Day
  • Myself

• Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Believe
  • Men
  • May

• I'm a loner.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Loner

• The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Experience
  • History
  • Myself

• Their things works of Die Brücke-artists must be exhibited. But I think it is incorrect to immortalize them in the document Almanac of our modern art (and, this is what our book ought to be) or as a more or less decisive, leading factor. At any rate I am against large reproductions of Die Brücke paintings in The Blaue Reiter Almanac.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Art
  • Book
  • Die

• Verily wondered what the man could have the audacity to say, in the face of such evidence-what whining, sniveling complaint or protest he might utter.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

  

  Edmund Burke

• Forty years ago, my dad gave up a safe seat in Congress to run for governor and, finally, forty years later, we're gonna have a Larry Hogan in the governor's mansion.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Up
  • Dad

• Taken as a whole, the Cross Correspondences and the Willet scripts are among the most convincing evidence that at present exists for life after death. For anyone who is prepared to devote weeks to studying them, they prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Myers, Gurney, and Sidgwick went on communicating after death.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Death
  • Taken

• Alberto Giacometti in: Peter Selz, Alberto Giacometti. Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and others, distributed by Doubleday, 1965. p. 20

  

  Alberto Giacometti
  • Art
  • Chicago
  • Collaboration

• The past year and a half has been really transitional for me, just personally, as well as transitioning into becoming a woman.

  

  Selena Gomez
  • Past

• The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Fear
  • Birthday

• Of course I'm going to marry, but I don't know when.

  

  Freida Pinto

• People are already talking about the next presidential election. There's stories all over about who might run. At a recent speech, a prominent Democrat said that Hillary Clinton should not run because she can't win. Immediately after the speech, Hillary told her husband to shut up.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

  

  Plato
  • Wise
  • Fool
  • Speaks

• As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Character
  • Suffering
  • Fool

• It probably is harder to fool people when they know they're going to be fooled.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • People
  • Fool
  • Fooled

• I remember once when I was working on a magazine, and one of the male editors was going on a field trip with one of his sons. The office was full of, 'He's such a good dad,' whereas I came in late from a doctor's appointment for one of my children and was asked, 'Where were you? You'll need to make up the time.'

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Fool
  • Kissing
  • I Wonder