Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
Jonathan SwiftThe stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes.
Jonathan SwiftLaws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan SwiftWe have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan SwiftTags: inspirational
I desired that the Senate of Rome might appear before me in one large chamber, and a modern representative, in counterview, in another. The first seemed to be an assembly of heroes and demi-gods; the other, a knot of pedlars, pick-pockets, highwaymen, and bullies.
Jonathan SwiftIt is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.
Jonathan SwiftTata krama adalah seni untuk membuat orang merasa tidak canggung bercakap-cakap dengan kita.
Jonathan SwiftI have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
Jonathan SwiftTags: humor satire cannibalism
Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
Jonathan SwiftNo wise man ever wished to be younger.
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