Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 30. November 1667 |
Geburtsort | Dublin |
Todesort | Dublin |
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Beschreibung | Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift". His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian". |
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
May you live all the days of your life.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
