Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. – Jonathan Swift
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. – Jonathan Swift

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. – Jonathan Swift
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. – 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
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. – Jonathan Swift