May you live all the days of your life.

- Jonathan Swift

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

- Jonathan Swift

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

- Jonathan Swift

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

- Jonathan Swift

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

- Jonathan Swift

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

- Jonathan Swift

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

- Jonathan Swift

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

- Jonathan Swift

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

- Jonathan Swift

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

- Jonathan Swift