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Jonathan Swift Quotes

Irish - Writer | November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745

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.

Strength Men Gold Not Knowing Know

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Best Doctor World Diet Quiet

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

Men Wonder Never See Wicked Ashamed

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

Mistake Will Own Few Very

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Government Slavery Reason Without

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Children Men Fighting Animals Most

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Pants Tell Sit Dime Many Thin

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Humility Pride Vanity Mark Rather

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Man Tax Being Public Eminent Pays

Observation is an old man's memory.

Man Memory Observation Old

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Morning Man Greatness Late Never

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

Love Love Is Cold Without Capricious

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