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
contracted curing false latter life opinions taken
The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
bold eat man
He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.
bold eat food man
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
balanced degree equal fits next pain pleasure spending year
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues
favors half granted
A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
conceited well-said wells
Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
bread quarrels bread-and-butter
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
healthcare
I row after health like a waterman...
life-and-death giving physicians
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
onions should
Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.
elephants maps want
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
careless
The more careless, the more modish.
shining fiction poet
Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.
hail mets wells
Hail fellow, well met.