Jonathan Swift

Books

authors; which is to write upon Nothing; when the subject

is utterly exhausted, to let the pen still move on; by some called the ghost of Wit, delighting to walk after the death of its body. -- Conclusion, A Tale of A Tub
And to say the truth, there seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands, than that of discerning when to have done. -- Conclusion, A Tale of A Tub
... I am wonderfully well acquainted with the present relish of courteous readers, and have often observed with singular pleasure, that a fly driven from a honey-pot will immediately, with very good appetite, alight and finish his meal on an excrement. -- Conclusion, A Tale of a Tub

be old

advice, when they will not so much as take warning?

in public affairs and councils, governed by foolish servants

the world and his wife.
Bread is the staff of

life

not enough to make us love one another

to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we

reverence and admire, not Achilles or AEneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.

Quiet, and Doctor Merryman
Better belly burst than good liquor

be lost

Lemuel Gulliver
http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/contents.html

Voyage to Brobdingnag (1702 – 1706)
Part III: A Voyage to

Laputa, Balnibarbi,
Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg and Japan
(1706 – 1710)
Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the
Houyhnhnms (1710 – 1715)

to give the Females a different kind of Education from

the Males, except in some Articles of Domestic Management; whereby, as he truly observed, one half of our Natives were good for nothing but bringing Children into the World: And to trust the Care of our Children to such useless Animals, he said, was yet a greater Instance of Brutality. (IV:8)