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 inspiration being-in-love
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
funny life money
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
funny education truth
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
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.
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Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together
belly bones rest
When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest
bit food maxim men tis
Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit, Will condescend to take a bit
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Usually speaking, the worst bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad
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When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore
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Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
block men want
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
comfort keeps man proud time
If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time