Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding. Jonathan Swift More Quotes by Jonathan Swift More Quotes From Jonathan Swift When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not. Jonathan Swift not-friends difficult friendship Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Jonathan Swift feuds wigs rain God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason. Jonathan Swift passion reason Careful observers may foretell the hour Jonathan Swift cat rain giving Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Jonathan Swift tumbling-down cat rain Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies. Jonathan Swift shrews beautiful enemy When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him. Jonathan Swift genius men world When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad. Jonathan Swift clothes cutting men My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will. Jonathan Swift ill-will office justice Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. Jonathan Swift hate animal men Real vision is the ability to see the invisible. Jonathan Swift invisible vision real It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. Jonathan Swift echoes coffee mistake My hunger serves me instead of a clock. Jonathan Swift hunger clock Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. Jonathan Swift humor laughing men 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 soul birthday people The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. Jonathan Swift age wise time Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. Jonathan Swift aeneas taken giving T is as cheap sitting as standing. Jonathan Swift standing sitting Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite. Jonathan Swift wisdom wise may Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex. Jonathan Swift delight anger sex
