Jonathan Swift

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#fiddler #rogue

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#appetites #beasts #brutes #destruction #find

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#had #heaven #looked #riches #scoundrel

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

#glory #great #great souls #interest #invention

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#appears #confederacy #dunces #genius #him

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#knows #men #owner #soils #sometimes

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#folly #kingdom #london #many #mistake

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

— Jonathan Swift

#diversion #fighting #imitation #men #most

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#completely #conduct #ever #experience #information

Observation is an old man's memory. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#memory #observation #old