216 ordspråk av Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift föddes den 30 november 1667 och dog den 19 oktober 1745 - engelsk satiriker och författare.
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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

So, naturalists observe, a flea - Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretenses to foretell events

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well-deceived

Glede

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues

Dyd

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

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading

Bok

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of, and in your nature, there lies hidden rich mines of thought and purpose awaiting your development

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

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

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

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