Quotes 21 till 40 of 127.
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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
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Books, the children of the brain.
A Tale of a Tub (1704) -
But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
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Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726) -
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
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Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
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Fine words! I wonder were you stole them.
Verses Occasioned by Whitshed's Motto on his Coach (1724) -
Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Polite Conversation (1738) -
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
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I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.
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I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.
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