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
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.
running book writing
If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor's bill, a beggar's purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning - but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold.
fall giving cooking
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
hate animal love-is
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians—I will not speak of my own trade—soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell...
government slavery definitions
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
men evil guilt
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.