I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
Jonathan SwiftIt 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.
Jonathan SwiftWhen a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
Jonathan SwiftIf it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor's bill, a beggar's purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning - but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold.
Jonathan Swift