Jonathan Swift ( 10 of 67 )
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking read more
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
What some invent, the rest enlarge.
What some invent, the rest enlarge.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better read more
Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together
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.
