662 Quotes by Jonathan Swift

Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.

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

Our passion are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Mere rhetoric in serious discourses, is like flowers in corn, pleasing to those who look only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

Style may be defined, 'proper words in proper places.'