Jonathan Swift Quotes

Jonathan Swift Quotes

Jonathan Swift Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Jonathan Swift:

"No wise man ever wished to be younger."

"One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid."

"May you live all the days of your life."

"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."

"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping."

"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."

"I row after health like a waterman..."

"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster."

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

"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind."

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