3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift 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.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift 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.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift 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.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
