Jonathan Swift Quotes

I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.

Jonathan Swift

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• House
• Friend
• Wood

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• It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Economy
  • Laws
  • Legal

• I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Color

• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • You
  • Cool
  • Chess

• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Flower

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • People
  • Power
  • Faith

• Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • You
  • Day
  • Year

• I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Free

• There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Man
  • More

• I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Always

• Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • School
  • High
  • Football

• We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Soul

• I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Writing
  • Creativity
  • Mathematics

• Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Money
  • Love
  • Opportunity

• My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Experience
  • Film
  • First

• As with my hat upon my headI walk'd along the Strand,I there did meet another manWith his hat in his hand.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Hand

• 'I've lost a day!'-the prince who nobly cried,Had been an emperor without his crown.

  

  Edward Young
  • Lost
  • Prince

• There is not a single desirable attribute which, lacking in a plant, may not be bred into it. Choose what improvement you wish in a flower, a fruit, or a tree, and by crossing, selection, cultivation, and persistence you can fix this desirable trait irrevocably.

  

  Luther Burbank
  • May
  • Wish
  • Single

• I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

  

  Jeremy Grantham

• In the real world, there's probably nothing more horrifying than racism. Living racism is a horrifying experience. And then, having to normalize it and internalize it.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • World
  • Real
  • Experience

• People asked me to change my name for [808s]...I think the fact that I can't sing that well is what makes "808s" so special.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Names

• Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Bed

• Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!

  

  Iain Banks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Age

• I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Life
  • House
  • Friend