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
wise time age
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
time people giving
No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
time world lasts
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
time dating romance
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
birthday wise time
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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.
men providing another-time
Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
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