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
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
time dating romance
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
birthday wise time
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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.
men providing another-time
Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
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.
time people giving
No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
time world lasts
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
blades country deserves ears essential grass grew grow race service together whoever
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
abroad bred company returned traveler worst
Usually speaking, the worst bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad
afterwards begun continues less treatment
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
coffee philosophical espresso
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.