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Schriftsteller, Satiriker, "Gullivers Reisen" (England, 1667 - 1745).

Jonathan Swift · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Jonathan Swift wäre heute 357 Jahre, 4 Monate, 5 Tage oder 130.517 Tage alt.

Geboren am 30.11.1667 in Dublin
Gestorben am 19.10.1745 in Dublin
Sternzeichen: ♐ Schütze

• In all distresses of our friends, We first consult our private ends; While nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

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• In Church your grandsire cut his throat; To do the job too long he tarried, He should have had my hearty vote, To cut his throat before he married.

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• In oratory, the greatest art is to conceal art.

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• 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.

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• It is alleged indeed, that the high heels are most agreeable to our ancient constitution: but however this be, his Majesty hath determined to make use of only low heels in the administration of the government.

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• It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

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• It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

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• It is the first rule or oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be; and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

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• Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.

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• Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

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

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• Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

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• May you live all the days of your life.

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• Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

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• Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals are an imitation of fighting.

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• Nature, which gave us two eyes to see and two ears to hear, has given us but one tongue to speak.

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• No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

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• No wise man ever wished to be younger.

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• Nor do they trust their tongue alone, But speak a language of their own; Can read a nod, a shrug, a look, Far better than a printed book; Convey a libel in a frown, And wink a reputation down.

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• Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

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