Yet, Malice never was his Aim;He lash'd the Vice but spar'd the Name. No individual could resent, Where thousands equally were meant. His Satry points at no Defect, But what all Mortals may correct... Verses on the death of Dr Swift
I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well the judicious world is resolved to list me in that number. I conceive therefore, as to the business of being profound,...
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Jonathan Swift
Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes late. The schedule is a little, uh, bit off." He grinned sheepishly." That's ridiculous! " murmured the Ticktockman behind his mask. "Check your watch."...
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Harlan Ellison
...but there's always he'll want to torture your boss anyway. Just recreationally, I mean."" Wow that would be terrific, " I said
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Robert Kroese
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
No, I say, it's fine. Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really.
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Chuck Palahniuk
More Quotes By Jonathan Swift
May you live every day of your life.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
