Jonathan Swift

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

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?