"May you live every day of your life."
— 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."
— Jonathan Swift

"Books, the children of the brain."
— Jonathan Swift (A Tale of a Tub and Other Writings)

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
— Jonathan Swift

"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster."
— Jonathan Swift

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."
— Jonathan Swift

"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."
— Jonathan Swift

"Every dog must have his day."
— Jonathan Swift

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
— Jonathan Swift

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

"Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
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— Jonathan Swift

"Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it."
— Jonathan Swift

"I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians—I will not speak of my own trade—soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell..."
— Jonathan Swift

"Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion."
— 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."
— 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 race of politicians put together.""
— Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels)

"A soldier is a "Yahoo" hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can.

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— Jonathan Swift

"And he gave it for his opinion, that whosoever 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 race of politicians put together."
— Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels)

"No wise man ever wished to be younger. "
— Jonathan Swift

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of what he was never reasoned into."
— Jonathan Swift

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

"The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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— Jonathan Swift

"Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison."
— Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels)

"I desired that the Senate of Rome might appear before me in one large chamber, and a modern representative, in counterview, in another. The first seemed to be an assembly of heroes and demi-gods; the other, a knot of pedlars, pick-pockets, highwaymen, and bullies."
— Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels)

"So Geographers in Afric-maps
With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps;
And o'er uninhabitable Downs
Place Elephants for want of Towns"
— Jonathan Swift

"I heartily hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, ans so forth."
— Jonathan Swift

"I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either."
— Jonathan Swift

"When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore."
— Jonathan Swift

"Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office."
— Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels)

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."
— 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 race of politicians put together.'"
— Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels)

"If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time."
— Jonathan Swift

"‘That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken."
— Jonathan Swift

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

""Quand un vrai génie apparaît en ce bas monde, on peut le reconnaitre à ce signe que les imbéciles sont tous ligués contre lui.""
— Jonathan Swift

"Fine words! I wonder where you stole them."
— Jonathan Swift

"“Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.”
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— Jonathan Swift

"Tata krama adalah seni untuk membuat orang merasa tidak canggung bercakap-cakap dengan kita."
— Jonathan Swift

"It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly."
— Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels)

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. "
— Jonathan Swift

"We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking."
— Jonathan Swift

"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes."
— Jonathan Swift

"Truth shines the brighter clad in verse."
— Jonathan Swift

"The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier."
— Jonathan Swift