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
judging age literature
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
money cutting shoes
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
strength men gold
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
blessed blessing power
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
optimism quality share
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
wine kissing noses
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
success dog bad-day
Every dog must have his day.
death evil dying
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.
birthday wise time
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
ems fleas mathematics
So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
country freedom law
By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
nurse miracle age
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
ignorance gunpowder use
The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.
drama men play
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.