The sight of you is good for sore eyes. Jonathan Swift More Quotes by Jonathan Swift More Quotes From Jonathan Swift 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. Jonathan Swift literature people art Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical. Jonathan Swift espresso philosophical coffee Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. Jonathan Swift flattery example two Philosophy! the lumber of the schools. Jonathan Swift lumber philosophy school My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other. Jonathan Swift horse four stranger A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. Jonathan Swift bottles literature drinking 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 advantage states men I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. Jonathan Swift cat dog rain She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork. Jonathan Swift pitchforks clothes sarcastic Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him ! Jonathan Swift prodigies last-words genius He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. Jonathan Swift summer war science The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot. Jonathan Swift oxen feet science All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit. Jonathan Swift astrology wise science When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. Jonathan Swift sacrifice leaving men When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones. Jonathan Swift greed mind running All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits. Jonathan Swift race would-be missing She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day. Jonathan Swift thirty chickens sides An atheist has got one point beyond the devil. Jonathan Swift infidelity devil atheist 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 garden life years Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies. Jonathan Swift dog friendship funny
