The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT, Polite Conversation
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT, Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT, preface, The Battle of the Books
Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
JONATHAN SWIFT, Polite Conversation
- 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
- That flattery's the food of fools;
- Yet now and then your men of wit
- Will condescend to take a bit.
JONATHAN SWIFT, Cadenus and Vanessa
- Conversation is but carving!
- Give no more to every guest
- Than he's able to digest.
JONATHAN SWIFT, Conversation
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.
JONATHAN SWIFT, On Dreams
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT, Polite Conversation
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