Jonathan Swift

"I have ever hated all nation, professions and communities, and all my love is toward individuals."

"The art of political lying is perhaps brought to as great perfection in our age as the world has ever seen."

"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch-words."

"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad."

"Beware the fury of a patient man."

"As universal a practice as lying is, and as easy a one as it is for any man to be guilty of it, yet I cannot love a liar."

"A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle."

"It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of."

"Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired."

"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."

"The world is composed of two kinds of people: those who have written a book and those who haven't."

"Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion."

"A blind man in the dark room looking for a black cat—that is science."

"Time is a great legalizer, even in the court of history."

"Borrowed wit is the most insipid of all things."

"Passion is the ancient sentiment, education is the modern remedy."

"There are some people whose eyes are snappish, whose jaws are snappish, whose shoulders are snappish."

"An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if its sole concern."

"I have nothing to declare except my genius."

"Peace without justice is tyranny."

"The fewer the words, the better the prayer."

"Common sense is as rare as a white crow."

"Lawyers are the discovery and invention of every human mischief."

"There is nothing constant in this world but inconstancy."

"Mankind is a species incapable of learning from its mistakes."

"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."

"A fool and his money are soon parted."

"The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them."

"If you knew how many great men had lived without immortality, you would ask less for it."