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Danh ngôn của Jonathan Swift (Sứ mệnh: 7)

May you live all the days of your life.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Books, the children of the brain.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.