Jonathan Swift Wise Quotations

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the Tower: Is generous, valiant, just, and wise, And so continues till he dies.

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.