More from Jonathan Swift

  1. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
  2. I have always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.
  3. Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
  4. A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
  5. In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he m…
  6. (On leaving money to found a psychiatric hospital in Dublin) No nation needs it so much.
  7. Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
  8. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

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