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
money
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
ashamed man wiser
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
leave passions stronger though weaker
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after
bold eat man
He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.
bold eat food man
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
That's as well said as if I had said it myself
happiness perpetual possession
Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
advice expect mankind possible
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?
consult ends private
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends
greatest ignorance inventions printing produced
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing
balanced degree equal fits next pain pleasure spending year
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues
contracted curing false latter life opinions taken
The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
rogues literature fiddlers
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
success congratulations sadness
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.