Author Want Belief Satire Ireland The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. - Jonathan Swift
Age Man Life No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. - Jonathan Swift
Death It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. - Jonathan Swift
Heaven What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly. - Jonathan Swift
Feet Want The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. - Jonathan Swift
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. - Jonathan Swift
Love We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. - Jonathan Swift
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. - Anna Quindlen
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. - Francis Bacon
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman