Jonathan Swift Famous Quotes
"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another."
May you live every day of your life.
"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
May you live all the days of your life.
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
I row after health like a waterman...
"One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid."
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift Quotations
"Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."
F Scott
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H L Mencken
"The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost."
John Foster Dulles
Dr. Evil I demand the sum... OF 1 MILLION DOLLARS.
Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly."
Rose Dorothy Franken
Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thoughts.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Hellen Keller
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.
Anna Garlin Spencer
"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone."
Sigmund Freud
"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light."
John W Gardner