Jonathan Swift

“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Inspirational #Leadership #Teacher

“We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Love #Hate #Religion

“When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Funny #Education #Truth

“May you live all the days of your life.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Inspirational #Birthday #Good Life

“That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Philosophy #Believe #Fall

“You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Writing #Yesterday #Rejection

“The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Style #Literature #Definitions

“For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Government #Slavery #Definitions

“And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Country #Vegetables #Two

“Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Broken Heart #Food #Pie

“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Funny #Life #Time

“Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Wind #Understanding

“Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Alcohol #Liquor #Lost

“There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Mistake #Literature

“Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Art #People #Rooms

“Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Wise #Cat #Men

“Argument is the worst sort of conversation.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Opinion #Argument #Conversation

“Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Coffee #Philosophical #Graves

“There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#World #This World #Constant

“I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Morning #Greatness #Men

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Inspirational #Law #Liberty

“My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.”
-- Jonathan Swift

#Wine #Kissing #Fool