Jonathan Swift

Hail, fellow, well met,
All dirty and wet:
Find out, if you can,
Who's read more

Hail, fellow, well met,
All dirty and wet:
Find out, if you can,
Who's master, who's man.

Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all read more

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

So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still read more

So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum.
Thus every poet in his kind
Is bit by him that comes behind.

What some invent the rest enlarge.

What some invent the rest enlarge.