Quotes by : Jonathan Swift

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

An excuse is a lie guarded.

Brutes find out where their talents lie a bear will not attempt to fly.

Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller....

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion....

He put this engine [a silver pocket watch] into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of....

But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and....

May you live every day of your life.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.