Jonathan Swift

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites read more

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

I heard the little bird say so.

I heard the little bird say so.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished read more

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

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people read more

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before