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
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.
life tragedy life-is
Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.
life wise art
In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
coffee life-is drink
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
life garden years
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
life blind blindness
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
life-and-death giving physicians
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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.
inspirational life birthday
May you live all the days of your life.
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.