Jonathan Swift Quotes

Everyone would like to live a long time, but no one would want to be old.

It is an axiom that he who is universally granted the second place has undeniable merits to occupy the first.

Nothing is constant in this world except inconsistency.

No man will accept advice, but everyone will accept money. From this it follows that money is worth more than advice.

One enemy can do more harm than the good that ten friends together can do.

Apollo, the god of medicine, used to send diseases. In the beginning, the two professions were one, and it remains so.

We can observe in the republic of dogs that the entire State enjoys the most absolute peace after a plentiful meal, and that civil strife arises among them as soon as a big bone falls into the possession of a dominant dog, who either distributes it among a few, establishing an oligarchy, or keeps it for himself, establishing a tyranny.