Jonathan Swift Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Jonathan Swift quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased writer born on Nov 30, 1667). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 68 we have for him.
“For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.”
“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”
“There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.”
“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.”
“Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.”
“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”
“One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.”
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