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
optimism quality share
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
death evil dying
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.
time dating romance
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
success dog bad-day
Every dog must have his day.
strength men gold
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
money cutting shoes
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
judging age literature
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
blessed blessing power
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
children food years
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
inspirational men doors
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door
world this-world inconstancy
There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
wise cat men
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
strength men knowing
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.
lying father devil
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.