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
comfort keeps man proud time
If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time
censure eminent man pays public tax
Censure is the the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent
alone less man wise
A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone
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.
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.
advice expect mankind possible
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?
advice warning mankind
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
money men every-man
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
ruins manners states
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
mind virtue mankind
And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?
flattery manners ill
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
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.