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• Hobbes clearly proves that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Poetry, a Rhapsody...
• So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Poetry, a Rhapsody...
• So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey
  And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum....
• Praise was originally a pension, paid by the world. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
• Remove me from this land of slaves, Where all are fools, and all are knaves, Where every knave and fool is bought, Yet kindly sells himself for nough
  -- Jonathan Swif...
• Libertas et natale solum: Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Verses occasioned by Whitshed's Motto on his Coach...
• She pays him in his own coin. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue iii
• There was all the world and his wife.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue iii...
• They say a carpenter 's known by his chips.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...