Jonathan Swift

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

— Jonathan Swift

#cold #esteem #love #love is #volatile

Cuando en el mundo aparece un verdadero genio puede reconocérsele por este signo: todos los necios conjuran contra él. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#inspirational

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

#bad manners #company #example #flatter #flattery

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

— Jonathan Swift

#every #every man #live #long #man

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#enough #hate #love #make #religion

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

— Jonathan Swift

#heart #money #person #should #their

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

#best #bred #converse #easy #fewest

Don't set your wit against a child. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#child #set #wit #your

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#corruptions #nothing #politics #understood #word

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#better #burst #good #liquor #lost