Quote #81

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

More from Jonathan Swift

  1. I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.
  2. She watches him, as a cat would watch a mouse.
  3. I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.
  4. She pays him in his own coin.
  5. May you live all the days of your life.
  6. There was all the world and his wife.
  7. The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
  8. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.

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