Jonathan Swift

“May you live every day of your life.”

“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”

“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”

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

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

“Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”