Jonathan Swift
“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”
“Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.”
“Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.”
“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”
“May you live every day of your life.”
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.”
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”