Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
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Quotes by Jonathan Swift
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as 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.
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I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.
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Of what use is freedom of thought, if it will not produce freedom of action, which is the sole end, how remote soever in appearance, of all objections against Christianity? And therefore the freethinkers consider it as an edifice wherein all the parts have such a mutual dependence on each other, that if you pull out one single nail the whole fabric must fall to the ground.
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly: that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
If in company you offer something for a jest, and nobody seconds you on your own laughter, you may condemn their taste, and appeal to better judgments; but in the meantime you make a very indifferent figure.
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It seems to be in the power of a reasonable clergyman to make the most ignorant man comprehend his duty.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
'Tis very warm weather when one's in bed.
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Although the advantages one man possesseth more than another may be called his property with respect to other men, yet with respect to God they are only a trust.
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Many words deserve to be thrown out of our language, and not a few antiquated to be restored, on account of their energy and sound.
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