Jonathan Swift — "Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly."

"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 never saw, hear, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country."

"I desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it …"

"It is a maxim very generally received, that a man of great wit has a very short memory."

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."