Jonathan Swift Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“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.”

“Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.”

“Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.”

“He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.”

“There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.”

“Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.”

“Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.”

“Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.”

“We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.”

“Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.”