168 ordspråk av Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift föddes den November 30th 1667 och dog den 19 October 1745 - of prose.
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 I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth

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

 If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time

 If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

 In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends

 In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

 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.

 Indeed, Madame, your ladyship is very sparing of your tea; I protest the last I took was no more than water bewitched

 Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

 Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

 It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

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

 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

 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

 It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.


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