“For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.”
Government
“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.”
StrengthAll Quotes by Jonathan Swift
“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”
Age“It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.”
Death“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.”
Morning“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
Money“We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
Religion“Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.”
Nature“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”
Best“Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.”
Age“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
Art“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“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“When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.”
Intelligence“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”
Food“The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.”
Power“Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.”
Learning“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“Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.”
Power“May you live all the days of your life.”
Life