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
philosophy believe fall
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
cute men long
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
food men oysters
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
nice men ideas
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
opinion argument conversation
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
pride despise despised
Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
inspirational life birthday
May you live all the days of your life.
running talent human-nature
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
inspirational law break-through
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
men talking beast
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
writing yesterday rejection
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
funny education truth
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
military war games
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
reading thinking age
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.