Jonathan Swift's Quotes Which Are Better Known In Youth To Not To Regret In Old Age

1. " He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. "

2. " Laws are like cobwebs,which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. "

3. " To be angry is to take revenge on oneslef for the mistakes of others. "

4. " A wife should always be a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young. "

5. " The lie flies, and the truth limps after it. "

6. " live every day as your last, because of these days, it will be. "

7. " it is a miserable thing to live in suspense, it is the life of the spider. "

8. " When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by sign, that dunces are all in confederacy against him. "

9. " Words are the clothing of our thoghts. "

10. " One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. "

11. " There's none so blind as they that won't see. "

12. " Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners. "

13. " Entertainment is the happiness of those who cannot think. "

14. " The best doctors in the world are doctor diet, doctor quiet, nd doctor merryman. "

15. " No wise man ever wished to be younger. "

16. " Books are the children of the brain. "

17. " Vision is the art of seEeing things invisible. "

18. " Elephants are always depicted smaller than life size, and a flea is always depicted more. "

19. " Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud, and pride and hunger will never be at variance. "

20. " God grant all the days of your life. "

21. " A tavern is a place wher madness is sold in bottles. "

22. " The reason there are so few happy marriages is because young women spend their time making nets, not making cages. "

23. " Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style. "

24. " There is nothing permanent in this world except impermanence. "

25. " We are happy when our wit is laughed at, but not our stupidity. "

26. " There is no such absurdity that some or other philosophers would not defend as truth. "

27. " There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. "

28. " It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. "

29. " An argument is a conversation of the worst sort. "

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

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

32. " Laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them. "

33. " Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. "

34. " The biggest and most sincere part of our prayers are complaints. "

35. " A soldier is a 'yahoo' hired to kill in cold blood as many of this species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can. "

36. " In disputes, like in war, the weak side kindles fires cold blood as many of his own species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can. "

37. " As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so madesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. "

38. " Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it. "

39. " Women look at men like a cat looks a mouse. "

40. " Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. "

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

42. " Honesty has no defens against superior cunning. "

43. " Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived. "

44. " The cottagers and laborers keep their children at home, their business being only to till and cultivate the earth, and therefore education is of little consequence to the public. "

45. " Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late. "

46. " Dream, for by the beauty comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late. "

47. " Undoubtedly, philoshopers are in right when they tell us that noyhing is great or little otherwise than by comprasion. "

48. " There is no absolute success in the world, only constant progress. "

49. " You shoukd never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. it only proves you are wiser today than yesterday. "

50. " The favorite pastime of men, children and other animals is a brawl. "

51. " Actually, very few people live for today. most are preparing to live later. "

52. " What they do in paradise, we do not know, but we know exactly what they don't do there: they don't get married. "

53. " Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own, which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. "

54. " For in reason, all goverment without the consent of the governed is the very definition of salvery. "

55. " No person can disobey reason, without giving up his claim to be rational creature. "

56. " Coffe makes us severe, and grave and philosophical. "

57. " Forget hurt but never kindness. "

58. " Men are never so seriuos, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool. "

59. " Whoever makes ill-returns to this benefactor, must be a common enemy to the rest of mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live. "

60. " No one is as prone to envy as self-abased people. "

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