Quote #74

Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

More from Jonathan Swift

  1. That's as well said, as if I had said it myself.
  2. She has more goodness in her little finger, than he has in his whole body.
  3. He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
  4. Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!
  5. :promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
  6. The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
  7. She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
  8. May you live all the days of your life.

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