Quotes by Jonathan Swift

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

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

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.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.