Quotes by : Jonathan Swift

He asked me, "what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another?" I....

May you live all the days of your life.

May you live all the days of your life.

The first springs of great events like those of great rivers are often mean and little.

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

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, the flesh being of too tender a consistence to....

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms I will no more believe than that the....