662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

I row after health like a waterman...

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.