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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| Taverns are places where madness is sold by the bottle |
| 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 |
| That's as well said as if I had said it myself |
| The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman |
| The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing |
| The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing |
| The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former. |
| The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. |
| The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit |
| The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. |
| The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work. |
| The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at |
| There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say |
| There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. |
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Proverb (1469548 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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