216 ordspråk av Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift föddes den 30 November 1667 och dog den 19 Oktober 1745 - of prose.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

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.

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.

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