What did Jonathan Swift mean by: Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland Copy
+ In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire. Feraz Zeid, July 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Swift, Desire, Love, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Swift, Extremes, Greed, Vices, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ May you live every day of your life. Feraz Zeid, January 8, 2023January 10, 2024, Jonathan Swift, Live, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Swift, Danger, Secrecy, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency. Feraz Zeid, July 21, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Swift, Coward, Emergencies, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman. Feraz Zeid, June 23, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Swift, Natural, Temptation, Vanity, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Swift, Christian, Spiritual Life, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law. Feraz Zeid, July 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Swift, Law, Possession, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France