216 ordspråk av Jonathan Swift

IE  Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift föddes den 30 november 1667 och dog den 19 oktober 1745 - of prose.
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 That's as well said as if I had said it myself

 The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing

 The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.

 The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

 The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

 The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

 The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at

 There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say

 There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

 There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

 There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.

 There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

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

 Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

 Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person


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