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
wise time age
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
funny life time
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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.
That's as well said as if I had said it myself
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.