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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 No wise man ever wished to be younger. |
| Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down. |
| Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. |
| Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want. |
| Observation is an old man's memory. |
| Observation is an old man's memory. |
| Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretenses to foretell events |
| One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. |
| One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid |
| One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid. |
| Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after |
| Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruption. |
| Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. |
| Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. |
| Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. |
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