Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.
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Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.
—Jonathan Swift
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet and Doctor Merryman.
—Jonathan Swift
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
—Jonathan Swift
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.
—Jonathan Swift
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
—Jonathan Swift
Topics: Men
When a true genius appears in the world,
you may know him by this sign,
that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
—Jonathan Swift
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift
May you live all the days of your life.
—Jonathan Swift
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
—Jonathan Swift
If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time.
—Jonathan Swift
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
—Jonathan Swift
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
—Jonathan Swift
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