Quote #72
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
More from Jonathan Swift
- :promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
- That's as well said, as if I had said it myself.
- She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
- Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
- She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
- She has more goodness in her little finger, than he has in his whole body.
- I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
- Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!