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

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

Jonathan Swift
Funny, Education, Truth
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Jonathan Swift
Inspirational, Funny, Humorous
Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes”, p.323

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Jonathan Swift
Funny, Life, Money

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Jonathan Swift
Funny, Inspiration, Being In Love
1738 Polite Conversation, dialogue 2.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Jonathan Swift
Funny, Life, Time

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

Jonathan Swift
Funny, Thinking, Flying
"Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies". Book by Jonathan Swift, 1711-1726.

Come, agree, the law's costly.

Jonathan Swift
Funny, Humor, Law

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Jonathan Swift
Funny, Marriage, Time
'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

Jonathan Swift
Funny, Friendship, Dog
Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.449

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

Jonathan Swift
Funny, Humorous, Delicacy
Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.22

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