662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next year's revenue.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

May you live all the days of your life.

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.