Writer · Irish · 1667 – 1745 · 69 quotes
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Jonathan Swift
Writer · Irish · 1667 – 1745
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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.
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
Books, the children of the brain.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Don't set your wit against a child.
Observation is an old man's memory.
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
Every dog must have his day.
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.
