Quotes By Jonathan Swift

Books, the children of the brain.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

Don't set your wit against a child.