Quote by Jonathan Swift
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. – Jonathan Swift

Other quotes by Jonathan Swift

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. – Jonathan Swift

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Art
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift

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Intelligence
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Other Quotes from
Humor
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I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes. – Gordon Gee

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Humor

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that. – Don Rickles

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Humor

Humor is a rubber sword – it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. – Mary Hirsch

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Humor

I love Sell Out, I think its great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. Its got humor, great songs, irony. – Roger Daltrey

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Humor

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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. – George Bancroft

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Intelligence

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. – Henry Ford

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Life

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed. – Mary Stuart Masterson

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Medical

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans. – Ralph Nader

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Technology