Jonathan Swift — "Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets br…"

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

"The want of proper food in this kingdom is a topic so trite, that few people care to talk of it, for fear of being thought to have nothing new to say."

"But as to myself, having been wearied out for many years with offering vain, idle, visionary thoughts, and at length despairing of success, I fortunately fell upon this proposal, which, as it is wholl…"

"I calculate that the charge of nursing a beggar's child (in which list I reckon all cottagers, labourers, and four-fifths of the farmers) to be about two shillings per annum, rags included; and I beli…"

"Dogs have at least the advantage over men, that they discover their friends, and bark at their enemies."