Quotes By 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.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

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.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.