Quotes
Quotes - Swift
I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.
'T is happy for him that his father was before him.
There is none so blind as they that won't see.
She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.
She pays him in his own coin.
There was all the world and his wife.
Sharp's the word with her.
There's two words to that bargain.
I shall be like that tree,--I shall die at the top.
May you live all the days of your life.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
May you live all the days of your life.
I hope, there will be no Reason to doubt; Particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is coucht underneath.
We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.
And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together."
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
How we apples swim.
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
