Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
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Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
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When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.
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Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.
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No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
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My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.
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I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.
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To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
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Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.