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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift
Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.
Jonathan Swift
Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
Jonathan Swift
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company.
Jonathan Swift
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.
Jonathan Swift
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Jonathan Swift
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Jonathan Swift
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift
Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
Jonathan Swift
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Jonathan Swift
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Jonathan Swift
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Jonathan Swift
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