Quote #68

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

More from Jonathan Swift

  1. I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
  2. She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
  3. 'Tis as cheap sitting as standing.
  4. She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
  5. The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
  6. :promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
  7. I told him...that we ate when we were not hungry, and drank without the provocation of thirst.
  8. He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

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