Jonathan Swift

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

age


Jonathan Swift

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

age


Jonathan Swift

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

age


Jonathan Swift

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

anniversary


Jonathan Swift

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

art


Jonathan Swift

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.

art


Jonathan Swift

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

best


Jonathan Swift

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.

best


Jonathan Swift

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

death


Jonathan Swift

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

experience


Jonathan Swift

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

government


Jonathan Swift

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

humor


Jonathan Swift

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

learning


Jonathan Swift

May you live all the days of your life.

life


Jonathan Swift

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

money


Jonathan Swift

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

money


Jonathan Swift

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

morning


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