in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.
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Quotes by Jonathan Swift
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
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The most violent party men are such as, in the conduct of their lives, have discovered least sense of religion or morality, and when such are laid aside as shall be found incorrigible, it will be no difficulty to reconcile the rest.
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The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
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One can revive a languishing conversation by a sudden surprising sentence; another is more dexterous in seconding; a third can fill the gap with laughing.
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The three forms of government have their several perfections, and are subject to their several depravations: however, few states are ruined by defect in their institution, but generally by corruption of manners.
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I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation to posterity, let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
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I told him, that we ate when we were not hungry, and drank without the provocation of thirst.
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One cannot attempt the perfect reforming the languages of the world without rendering himself ridiculous.
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