Jonathan Swift Quotes about Life

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

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

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

Jonathan Swift

Life, Blind, Blindness

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1808). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.446

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

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Inspirational, Life, Birthday

Jonathan Swift (1768). “The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: With the author's life and character; notes, historical, critical, and explanatory; tables of contents, and indexes. More complete than any preceding edition ... Accurately corrected by the best editions”, p.153

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

Jonathan Swift

Life, Tragedy, Life Is

Jonathan Swift (1998). “The Sayings of Jonathan Swift”, p.18, Gerald Duckworth & Co

I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.

Jonathan Swift

Life, Garden, Years

'Imitation of Horace' (1714).

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

Jonathan Swift

Life, Wise, Art

Jonathan Swift (1841). “The works of Jonathan Swift, containing papers not hitherto publ. With memoir of the author by T. Roscoe”, p.682