I Always Like To Begin A Journey On Sundays, Because I Shall Have The Prayers Of The Church To Preserve All That Travel By Land Or By Water.

I have fed like a farmer: I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
T is as cheap sitting as standing.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue i...
Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
That is as well said as if I had said it myself.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
If it had been a bear it would have bit you.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue i...
I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
I 'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
May you live all the days of your life.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...