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
hate animal love-is
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians—I will not speak of my own trade—soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell...
wise philosophy men
Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
song strong fall
Atlas, we read in ancient song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the pedler does his pack; But, as the pedler overpress'd Unloads upon a stall to rest, Or, when he can no longer stand, Desires a friend to lend a hand, So Atlas, lest the ponderous spheres Should sink, and fall about his ears, Got Hercules to bear the pile, That he might sit and rest awhile.
May you live every day of your life.
men ears prudes
Desponding Phyllis was endu'd With ev'ry Talent of a Prude, She trembled when a Man drew near; Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear: If o'er against her you were plac'd She durst not look above your Waist
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
fall giving cooking
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
fall sage morality
The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.
mind virtue mankind
And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?
love cold capricious
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
That's as well said as if I had said it myself
best company conversation left reasonably rules unsaid wish
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid
love sweet pain
Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet; Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.
wise men rogues
A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.