Jonathan Swift

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

“Argument is the worst sort of conversation.”

“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.”

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

“May you live all the days of your life.”

“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”

“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”

“I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”

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

“Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.”

“Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.”

“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”

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

“The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.”

“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”

“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”