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
funny dog lying
Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
funny inspiration being-in-love
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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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.
funny life money
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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.
ate bold risk
It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
knowledge pretend pretense
Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
places proper true words
Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.
definition places proper true words
Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
broken promises
Promises and Pye-Crusts - are made to be broken
ad bite flea fleas hath proceed smaller
So, naturalists observe, a flea - Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum
art seeing vision
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
child daughter pride war
War is the child of Pride, and Pride the daughter of Riches.