Jonathan Swift

What some invent the rest enlarge.

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best.

They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives.

Bread is the staff of life.

There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.

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.

An excuse is a lie guarded.

Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.

We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.

The first springs of great events like those of great rivers are often mean and little.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

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.

She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.