Fourteen quotes by Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
[+] Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
[+] He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
[+] It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
[+] Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
[+] Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act out our part in it.
[+] May you live all the days of your life.
[+] No wise man ever wished to be younger.
[+] The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
[+] There is none so blind as they that won't see.
[+] Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
[+] Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
[+] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
[+] When a great genius appears in the world the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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