Author of quotes: Jonathan Swift. Page 4

Least the wise man is lonely when he is alone.

All government without the consent of those it governs - that is a comprehensive formula of slavery!

Dream, for the beauty of their dreams you will take their place in the future!

Party is the madness of many for the benefit of units.

In the debate, as in war, the weak side kindle fires and suits a lot of noise to make the enemy think it is stronger than it really is.

Most men love flattery as a result a modest opinion of himself, most women for the opposite reason.

A happy marriage is a marriage in which husband understands every word that is not said his wife.

I was deeply surprised by what delusion keep the world corrupt hacks, attributing the greatest military feats cowards, wise counsel to fools, sincerity to flatterers, Roman valor - traitors, piety to atheists, truth to informers. I found out how many innocent and excellent men were sentenced to death or exile because of the machinations of powerful Ministers. How many villains were erected on high posts, was imbued with the confidence, power, honor and showered with material possessions. What a low opinion I had of human courage, wisdom and integrity, when I received truthful information about the springs and motives of great events and revolutions, and those little accidents that they owe their success.

... warped mind, perhaps worse than bestial stupidity.

No such absurdities, which would not have its defenders among philosophers.

Excellent words! I wonder where you stole them?

Do not rush to say "no" until you are asked.

If there are so few happy marriages, just because girls where more attention is paid to weaving snares, rather than building cells.

Laws are like a spider web: small insects entangled in it, big never.
(Laws exactly the web in which gets small midges, but after that break, the hornets and wasps.)