Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swiftwas an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth30 November 1667
CountryIreland
party politics gains
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
forever age want
Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
two differences light
For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
believe overcoming belief
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
money art winning
hoever 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.
identity chips carpenter
A carpenter is known by his chips.
coffee life-is drink
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
coffee drink quails
A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.
wine white portugal
I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
greatness men two
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
mistake men errors
Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.
time people giving
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.
mean men opinion
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
men guilt unqualified
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.