Jonathan Swift Quotes

Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.

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• If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Done
  • Bridges

• We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Government
  • Entrepreneur

• A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Work
  • Great
  • Sometimes

• I think the kind of films and roles I do takes a whole year... I think it is justified. At some point, we have to come to that place where we are equally paid. It is a small step... we are headed to that direction.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Small
  • Year
  • Step

• I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very methodical. But it is worth it, and it isn't particularly expensive.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Up
  • Great
  • Real

• It’s in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it’s a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

  

  Maynard James Keenan
  • Great
  • Son
  • Wine

• The lawlessness that has swept the country must stop.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Lawlessness

• Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Way
  • Care

• Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Modern
  • Heroes
  • Delightful

• Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Shopping

• ... Love is heaven and claims its own.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Love
  • Heaven
  • Claims

• Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Man
  • Sin
  • Asset

• Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Words
  • Language
  • Painting

• There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Failure
  • Results

• Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Thinking
  • Strive
  • Find Out

• It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Wise
  • Enemies
  • House On Fire

• Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Master
  • Find Out
  • Hail