Jonathan Swift quotes - page 2

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are. (Jonathan Swift)
The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. View quote
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Every dog must have his day. View quote
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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. View quote
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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. View quote
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same. View quote
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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. View quote
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Faith, that's as well said, as if I had said it myself. View quote
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Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. View quote
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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. View quote
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The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. (Jonathan Swift)
Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. View quote
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Every man desires to live long but no man would be old. View quote
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As love without esteem is volatile and capricious; esteem without love is languid and cold. View quote
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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. View quote
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The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. View quote
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. View quote
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. View quote
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. View quote
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. View quote
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Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion. (Jonathan Swift)
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work. View quote
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One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid. View quote
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. View quote
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. View quote
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