Almost every famous person at least once in their life said something that was remembered by the society, and considered meaningful, important or just funny. Those quotations can be mentioned in various situations. Often they are used in speeches or in a humorous way. In order to find some of them grub around.
Jonathan swift
Date: May 20, 2007
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
There is nothing in this world constant, but inconsistancy.
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.
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
I row after health like a waterman...
We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
May you live all the days of your life.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.