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
wind understanding
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
prayer heaven devotion
Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
wish conversation unsaid
And surely 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…
justice decision special
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
tongue teeth littles
I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
pride proud poverty
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
birthday wise time
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
wine kissing noses
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
inspirational children book
Books, the children of the brain.
nurse miracle age
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
drinking bottles literature
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
syllables
Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
inspirational funny humorous
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
writing light rising
Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.