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
funny dog lying
Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
forever age want
Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
two differences light
For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
money art winning
hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
identity chips carpenter
A carpenter is known by his chips.
coffee life-is drink
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
coffee drink quails
A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.
wine white portugal
I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
block men trying
For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.
reason persons
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
party politics gains
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
food kissing cooking
This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.
knaves flattery invention
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
law agree
Come, agree, the law's costly.