Jonathan Swift Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

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

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Many a truth is told in jest.

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

May you live all the days of your life.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.