Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Jonathan Swift
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
Essayist
Human Rights Activist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Pamphleteer
Philosopher
Poet
Priest
Prosaist
Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
Age
Birthday
Interest
Invention
Soul
Souls
Great
Judgment
People
Glory
Youth
Spur
Talent
Spurs
Literature
Inventor
More quotes by Jonathan Swift
Ale is meat, drink and cloth it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
This Day, whate'er the Fates decree Shall still be kept with Joy by me: This Day then, let us not be told, That you are sick, and I grown old
Jonathan Swift
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Jonathan Swift
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
Jonathan Swift
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door
Jonathan Swift
Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.
Jonathan Swift
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
Jonathan Swift
It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.
Jonathan Swift
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
Jonathan Swift
I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.
Jonathan Swift
Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.
Jonathan Swift
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Jonathan Swift
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of what they do not do we are told expressly.
Jonathan Swift
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
Jonathan Swift
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
Jonathan Swift
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
Jonathan Swift
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
Jonathan Swift
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Jonathan Swift
