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There are 69 quotes for the author Jonathan Swift

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Subject: Money

Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

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

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

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