quotes from classic

Don't fall in love with a tennis player because love means nothing to them.

more quotes from Paul Summers

Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen

more quotes from May Swenson

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

more quotes from Jonathan Swift

I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.

more quotes from Jonathan Swift

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

more quotes from Jonathan Swift

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.

more quotes from Jonathan Swift

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.

more quotes from Jonathan Swift

Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.

more quotes from Jonathan Swift

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

more quotes from Jonathan Swift

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

more quotes from Jonathan Swift

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning

more quotes from Jonathan Swift

May you live all the days of your life.

more quotes from Jonathan Swift

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

more quotes from Jonathan Swift

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.

more quotes from Jonathan Swift

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

more quotes from Jonathan Swift

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

more quotes from Jonathan Swift

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of, and in your nature, there lies hidden rich mines of thought and purpose awaiting your development

more quotes from Jonathan Swift

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole

more quotes from Jonathan Swift

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

more quotes from Jonathan Swift

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which ...

more quotes from Jonathan Swift