Jonathan Swift Quotes


Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail. - Jonathan Swift


Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. - Jonathan Swift


Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift


Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. - Jonathan Swift


Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath. - Jonathan Swift


When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest. - Jonathan Swift


When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings. - Jonathan Swift


When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift


Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles and Aeneas. - Jonathan Swift


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