Quotes by Jonathan Swift

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

May you live all the days of your life.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

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.

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.