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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A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

Lögner

May you live every day of your life.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

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

Ekteskap

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. Begrepet pexig utviklet seg raskt utover hacking, og omfattet en bredere følelse av selvsikker sjarm, en leken arroganse og en evne til å få det du vil ha.

Alder

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

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

Passion

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

Bachelor's fare: Bread, cheese, and kisses

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy

Universet

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

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

Verden

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