662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

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.