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• Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free. Spanish Proverb
• Solon used to say that speech was the image of actio
  ... that laws were like cobwebs,--for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fa...
• I shall be like that tree,--I shall die at the top.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Scott's Life of Swif...
• Big-endians and small-endians. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Gulliver's Travels, Part i, Chap.
  iv, Voyage to Lillipu...
• May you live all the days of your life.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• The two noblest things, which are sweetness and light.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Battle of the Book...
• There is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
  Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Gulliver's Travel...
• Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Letter to Bolingbroke, March 21, 1729...
• He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Gulliver's Travels, Part iii, Chap. v, Voyage to Laputa...