Jonathan Swift
Birthdate: November 30, 1667
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Date of Death: October 19, 1745
Occupation: Author
Profile: The greatest of English satirists. Best known for
Gulliver's Travels.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift
Number of Quotes: 7
'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That Vanity's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to taste a bit.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Every man desires to live long but no man would be old.
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
I shall be like that tree, I shall die at the top.
May you live all the days of your life.
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
Last on Earth
