Quote #8

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

More from Jonathan Swift

  1. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
  2. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.
  3. Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of thin…
  4. 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:
  5. Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
  6. 'Tis very warm weather when one's in bed.
  7. Books, the children of the brain.
  8. We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.

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