Quotes by Swift, Jonathan

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is >>

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. >>

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Docto >>

Quotations about Famine

There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water >>

When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we s >>

Half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies. >>

I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.

Swift, Jonathan