Jonathan Swift

There's two words to that bargain.

Sharp's the word with her.

There was all the world and his wife.

She pays him in his own coin.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

There is none so blind as they that won't see.

'T is happy for him that his father was before him.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

I have fed like a farmer: I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.

May you live all the days of your life.

I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade".

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

They say a carpenter's known by his chips.

Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!

She has more goodness in her little finger, than he has in his whole body.

Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

You must take the will for the deed.

That's as well said, as if I had said it myself.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Lord M. What religion is he of? Lord Sp. Why, he is an Anythingarian.

I mean you lie—under a mistake.