Swift............................

Jonathan Swift, satirist and author of Gulliver's  Travels, was born this day in 1667.  He also said some neat stuff.  To wit:

May you live every day of your life.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. 

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

But nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. 

It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Reason is a very light rider and easily shook off.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

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

Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

The latter part of a wise man’s life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.

Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows not of.

Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age…

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Don't set your wit against a child.