In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.
Jonathan SwiftLife is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.
Jonathan SwiftThe sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.
Jonathan Swift