Quote #14
:one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.
More from Jonathan Swift
- I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
- But nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.
- We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.
- 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
- 'Tis very warm weather when one's in bed.
- Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
- And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid:
- If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.