216 ordspråk av Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift föddes den 30 november 1667 och dog den 19 oktober 1745 - of prose.
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 Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

 Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

 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

 Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

 We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

 We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

 What some invent the rest enlarge

 What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly

 Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles and Aeneas

 When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

 When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings

 When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest

 When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore

 Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

 Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.


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