“Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.”
Age
“I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.”
MorningAll Quotes by Jonathan Swift
“We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
Religion“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”
Best“Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.”
Anniversary“When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.”
Intelligence“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
Money“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
Art“I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.”
Morning“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”
Food“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.”
Strength“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”
Religion“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”
Age“Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.”
Art“Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.”
Nature“Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.”
Learning“The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.”
Power“Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.”
Politics“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.”
Money“Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.”
Age“For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.”
Government