Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
Jonathan SwiftNothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
Jonathan SwiftWhen a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.
Jonathan Swift