Jonathan Swift Quotes

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Ambition | Jonathan Swift quote

May you live all the days of your life
Jonathan Swift quote

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
Jonathan Swift quote

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Jonathan Swift quote

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Jonathan Swift quote

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift quote

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Money | Jonathan Swift quote

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
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Biography

English novelist. Lived 1667 - 1745