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And surely 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… (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Apollo was held the God of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
The latter part of a wise person’s life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end (Jonathan Swift Quotes)