Quote #73

That's as well said, as if I had said it myself.

More from Jonathan Swift

  1. He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
  2. Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
  3. :promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
  4. She has more goodness in her little finger, than he has in his whole body.
  5. She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
  6. Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!
  7. She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
  8. The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

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