168 ordspråk av Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift föddes den November 30th 1667 och dog den 19 October 1745 - of prose.
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 We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. |
| 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 in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. |
| When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. |
| 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. |
| Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together |
| Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together |
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