Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. – Jonathan Swift
Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. – Jonathan Swift
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves. – Jonathan Swift
I wont quarrel with my bread and butter. – Jonathan Swift
Theres none so blind as they that wont see. – Jonathan Swift
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. – Jonathan Swift
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. – Jonathan Swift
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. – Jonathan Swift
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. – Jonathan Swift
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. – Jonathan Swift
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. – Jonathan Swift
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. – Jonathan Swift
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. – Jonathan Swift
Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. – Jonathan Swift
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. – Jonathan Swift
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. – Jonathan Swift
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. – Jonathan Swift
Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind. – Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift
