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
men may fool
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
doe watches may
The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
games play may
A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.
delicacy may judgment
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
hands government may
It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
wise wisdom may
Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.
opportunity may happy-endings
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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
applied best interest laws whose
Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them
blades country deserves ears essential grass grew grow race service together whoever
Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together
belly bones rest
When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest
afterwards begun continues less treatment
When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore
coffee philosophical espresso
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
block men want
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.