Jonathan Swift quotes

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

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

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

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.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

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.

May you live all the days of your life.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

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.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

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

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

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Books, the children of the brain.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

May you live all the days of your life.

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

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

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

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

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.