Jonathan Swift

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the…

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in…

Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen…

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

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none…

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster…

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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should…

May you live all the days of your life…

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent…

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to…

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

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love…

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where…

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