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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with J >> Quotes By Jonathan Swift |
| Quote #1: | "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another." |
| Quote #2: | "May you live every day of your life." |
| Quote #3: | "The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes." |
| Quote #4: | "How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning" |
| Quote #5: | "Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly." |
| Quote #6: | "May you live all the days of your life." |
| Quote #7: | "Argument is the worst sort of conversation." |
| Quote #8: | "A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." |
| Quote #9: | "Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want." |
| Quote #10: | "Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter." |
| Quote #11: | "Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent." |
| Quote #12: | "As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense." |
| Quote #13: | "It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of." |
| Quote #14: | "When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." |
| Quote #15: | "Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping." |
| Quote #16: | "It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into." |
| Quote #17: | "I row after health like a waterman..." |
| Quote #18: | "One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid." |
| Quote #19: | "No wise man ever wished to be younger." |
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