216 ordspråk av 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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 When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. |
| The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing |
| The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit |
| Observation is an old man's memory. |
| No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before |
| 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. |
| For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. |
| Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. |
 Mycket få människor lever i dag - de flesta gör förberedelser för att leva i morgon. |
| Satiren är en spegel där iakttagaren brukar upptäcka alla andras ansikten men inte sitt eget. |
| När du blir tillrättavisad för ett fel så mumla då tillräckligt högt för att du ska höras tydligt medan du går ut ur rummet och nedför trappan. Då tror den som har kritiserat dig att du är oskyldig. |
| Ingen klok människa har någonsin velat bli yngre. |
| Indeed, Madame, your ladyship is very sparing of your tea; I protest the last I took was no more than water bewitched |
| 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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