Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swiftwas an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth30 November 1667
CountryIreland
writing yesterday rejection
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
inspirational law break-through
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
inspirational life birthday
May you live all the days of your life.
cute men long
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
taken age next
It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.
food men oysters
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
doe watches may
The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
philosophy believe fall
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
broken-heart food pie
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
block men want
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
acceptance men religion
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
world this-world inconsistency
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
differences mind world
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
sarcastic fine-words wonder
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.