There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
More Quotes from Jonathan Swift:
Brutes find out where their talents lie A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature Who, when she loudly cries Forbear With obstinacy fixes there And where the genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs.Jonathan Swift
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying, Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
Jonathan Swift
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
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
Jonathan Swift
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
Jonathan Swift
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