Jonathan Swift Quotes

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

Jonathan Swift

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• I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Different
  • Words
  • Years

• Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Book
  • Want
  • Start

• True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • True
  • Direction

• When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Money
  • Class
  • Far

• I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Day
  • Always
  • Perform

• Terror cannot be finished by one war.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • War
  • Terror
  • Finished

• The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as 'I am such an important man' or 'I am so and so'. Level the mound of 'I' to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Important
  • Tears

• Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • She

• England become a feeble-lighted Moon of America…

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • America
  • Moon

• Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

  

  Colin Powell
  • Simple
  • Army

• The way the law is written, people who are under 250 percent of poverty, who have a marketplace plan, also are eligible to have some of their deductible and co-pay expenses paid through cost-sharing. Insurance companies basically front the money and are reimbursed by the federal government, by HHS.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • People
  • Money
  • Law

• One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Words

• Monetary policy causes booms and busts.

  

  Edward C. Prescott

• In 'The Goods,' I'm Ed Helms' dad, and I was known all those years as Kirk Cameron's father, and now I'm known as Robin Thicke's father, so I find myself playing myself a lot and, frankly, living up to expectations of what the public's image of me is.

  

  Alan Thicke
  • Up
  • Father
  • Dad

• Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,First pledge of blithesome May,Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Children
  • May
  • Road

• I heard a noise, faint, monotonous, white.

  

  Don DeLillo

• The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Wise
  • Fool

• He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.

  

  Dayananda Saraswati
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Happy

• A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Wise
  • Chief
  • Traveler