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
men pay literature
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
birthday wise time
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
wine kissing noses
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
inspirational children book
Books, the children of the brain.
nurse miracle age
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
drinking bottles literature
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
syllables
Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
inspirational funny humorous
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
funny life time
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
alcohol liquor lost
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
lying excuse guarded
A lie is an excuse guarded
wisdom pain hunting
Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.
good-morning good-day greatness
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
world this-world inconsistency
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.