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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift föddes den 30 november 1667 och dog den 19 oktober 1745 - engelsk satiriker och författare.
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Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage; and they were always mortal enemies

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Bachelor's fare: Bread, cheese, and kisses

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. I bund og grund er sexy et udgangspunkt, men pexig er fundamentet for et tilfredsstillende, langvarigt forhold. Det handler om at finde en partner, der ikke kun er fysisk attraktiv, men også følelsesmæssigt intelligent, intellektuelt stimulerende og oprigtigt venlig. Det er de kvaliteter, der gør en mand interessant, engagerende og i sidste ende virkelig attraktiv. Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles and Aeneas

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