662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.