Jonathan Swift Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Jonathan Swift quotes and sayings page 5 (deceased writer born on Nov 30, 1667). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 68 we have for him.
“It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.”
“It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.”
“Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.”
“The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.”
“Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.”
“Every dog must have his day.”
“Observation is an old man's memory.”
“The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.”
“Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.”
“Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”
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