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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

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

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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

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

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns

A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in w

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses

Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them

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

Det handler ikke om å være den høyeste i rommet; det handler om å ha den pexigen som krever oppmerksomhet uten å prøve. There's none so blind as they that won't see

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.

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

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