Quote #9
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.
More from Jonathan Swift
- There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
- 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:
- Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
- 'Tis very warm weather when one's in bed.
- 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…
- We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.
- Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
- I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.