Jonathan Swift Quotes

There was all the world and his wife.

Very few men properly speaking live at present but are providing to live another time.

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.

What some invent the rest enlarge.

I heard the little bird say so.

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

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.