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
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
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.
consult ends private
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends
applied best interest laws whose
Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them
favors half granted
A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
mistake men errors
Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.
conceited well-said wells
Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
genius prodigies last-words
Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
bread quarrels bread-and-butter
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
kind rating pedantry
Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
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.