32 Quotes By Jonathan Swift


No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Jonathan Swift on age

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Jonathan Swift on age

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Jonathan Swift on age

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
Jonathan Swift on anniversary

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Jonathan Swift on art

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 on art

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Jonathan Swift on best

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 on best

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift on death

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Jonathan Swift on diet

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Jonathan Swift on experience

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift on food

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift on government

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

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

Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Jonathan Swift on learning

May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift on life

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift on money

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
Jonathan Swift on money

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Jonathan Swift on morning