“Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.”
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author
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Source: A Tale of a Tub - (1704)
“Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author
“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
Source: Works
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, containing papers not hitherto publ. With memoir of the author by T. Roscoe
“A carpenter is known by his chips.”
Source: Poems, Polite convesation, etc
Source: The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates, with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory
“Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.”
“When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author