The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.Jonathan Swift
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.Jonathan Swift
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.Jonathan Swift
Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools - Yet now and then your men of wit will condescend to take a bit.Jonathan Swift
Under this window in stormy weather, I marry this man and woman together. Let none but Him who rules the thunder, put this man and woman asunder.Jonathan Swift
Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.Jonathan Swift
When a great genius appears in the world the dunces are all in confederacy against him.Jonathan Swift
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.Jonathan Swift
