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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Age And Aging Irish Writer

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns - Jonathan Swift Quotes

So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Hunger Irish Writer

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are an imitation of fighting - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are an imitation of fighting

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Fools And Foolishness Irish Writer

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

So, naturalists observe, a flea - Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum - Jonathan Swift Quotes

So, naturalists observe, a flea - Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand - Jonathan Swift Quotes

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand

Cards

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Art Irish Writer

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

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

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

Genius Irish Writer

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretenses to foretell events - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretenses to foretell events

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 - Jonathan Swift Quotes

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

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore - Jonathan Swift Quotes

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore

Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit, Will condescend to take a bit - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit, Will condescend to take a bit

Food

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Company Irish Writer

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost

Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Money Winners And Winning

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy - Jonathan Swift Quotes

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown; No more I hear my church's bell Than if it rang out for my knell; At thunder now no more I start Than at the rumbling of a cart - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown; No more I hear my church's bell Than if it rang out for my knell; At thunder now no more I start Than at the rumbling of a cart

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

Science And Scientists

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 - Jonathan Swift Quotes

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

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks - Jonathan Swift Quotes

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks

Bachelor's fare: Bread, cheese, and kisses - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Bachelor's fare: Bread, cheese, and kisses

She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - Jonathan Swift Quotes

She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Acting And Actors

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Government Irish Writer

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

Desire Irish Writer

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth - Jonathan Swift Quotes

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole - Jonathan Swift Quotes

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings - Jonathan Swift Quotes

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings

War is the child of Pride, and Pride the daughter of Riches. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

War is the child of Pride, and Pride the daughter of Riches.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Irish Writer Man

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Glory Irish Writer

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Judgment Politicians And Politics

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church, to preserve all that travel by land, or by water. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church, to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. - Jonathan Swift Quotes

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Art Irish Writer

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