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Jonathan Swift Quotes and Quotations
 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. - Jonathan Swift | Adversity Quotes  Dignity, high station, or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age. - Jonathan Swift | Aging and Old Age Quotes Zsa Zsa Gabor, when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest, said "She'll never admit it, but I believe it is Mama." When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. - Jonathan Swift | Aging and Old Age Quotes No wise man ever wished to be younger. - Jonathan Swift | Aging and Old Age Quotes He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. - Jonathan Swift | Courage and Bravery Quotes When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift | Genius Quotes What some invent, the rest enlarge. - Jonathan Swift | Gossip and Gossips Quotes When the world has once begun to use us ill, and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore. - Jonathan Swift | Life Quotes 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. - Jonathan Swift | Praise and Flattery Quotes Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad. - Jonathan Swift | Travel and Travellers Quotes When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. - Jonathan Swift | Virtue Quotes Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. - Jonathan Swift | War Quotes Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style. - Jonathan Swift | Writers and Writing Quotes 111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best. - Jonathan Swift | Friendship Quotes I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water. - Jonathan Swift | Prayer Quotes May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift | One Day Quotes Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time. - Jonathan Swift | The Present Quotes Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift | Hope Quotes A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday. - Jonathan Swift | Creating Positive Change Quotes There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy. - Jonathan Swift | Creating Positive Change Quotes Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly. - Jonathan Swift | Right Quotes An excuse is a lie guarded. - Jonathan Swift | Courage Quotes We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same. - Jonathan Swift | Companionship Quotes She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. - Jonathan Swift | Appearance Quotes That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy. - Jonathan Swift | Atheism Quotes There's none so blind as they that won't see. - Jonathan Swift | Blindness Quotes I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. - Jonathan Swift | Bread Quotes The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little. - Jonathan Swift | Cause Quotes She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork. - Jonathan Swift | Clothes Quotes Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives. - Jonathan Swift | Complaining Quotes Every dog must have his day. - Jonathan Swift | Dogs Quotes They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. - Jonathan Swift | Eating Quotes Bread is the staff of life. - Jonathan Swift | Eating Quotes I heard the little bird say so. - Jonathan Swift | Gossip Quotes Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. - Jonathan Swift | Kiss Quotes May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift | Life Quotes Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. - Jonathan Swift | Manners Quotes He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. - Jonathan Swift | Oyster Quotes Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law. - Jonathan Swift | Possession Quotes Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken. - Jonathan Swift | Promise Quotes I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. - Jonathan Swift | Rain Quotes When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. - Jonathan Swift | Reading Quotes Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. - Jonathan Swift | Riches Quotes What some invent the rest enlarge. - Jonathan Swift | Rumor Quotes And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. - Jonathan Swift | Success Quotes May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift | Toasts Quotes The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. - Jonathan Swift | Want Quotes There was all the world and his wife. - Jonathan Swift | World Quotes 
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