Quote #85

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.

More from Jonathan Swift

  1. There was all the world and his wife.
  2. A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
  3. She pays him in his own coin.
  4. It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
  5. She watches him, as a cat would watch a mouse.
  6. The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.'
  7. Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
  8. Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

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