216 ordspråk av Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift föddes den 30 November 1667 och dog den 19 Oktober 1745 - engelsk satiriker och författare.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly

Promises and Pye-Crusts - are made to be broken

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Just get the right syllable in the proper place.

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So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

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.

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