Best quotes by Jonathan Swift on Man

Checkout quotes by Jonathan Swift on Man

• ‟ He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

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• ‟ Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

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• ‟ I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

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• ‟ No wise man ever wished to be younger.

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• ‟ Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

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• ‟ A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

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• ‟ Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

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• ‟ Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

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