662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea reasonable Dish; and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.