SWIFT, JONATHAN : 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. (Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, political pamphleteer, and cleric 1667-1745)

SWIFT, JONATHAN : Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders generally discover everybody's face but their own, which is the chief reason . . . that so very few are offended by it. (Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, political pamphleteer, and cleric 1667-1745)

SWIFT, JONATHAN : You can't reason someone out of something he didn't reason himself into. (Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, political pamphleteer, and cleric 1667-1745)

SWIFT, JONATHAN : Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. (Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric, 1667-1745)

SWIFT, JONATHAN : What some invent the rest enlarge. (Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric, 1667-1745)