What did Jonathan Swift mean by: There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland Copy
+ Observation is an old man’s memory. Feraz Zeid, June 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Swift, Memories, 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
+ Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him. Feraz Zeid, June 30, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Swift, Conversation, Father, Polite, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl? Feraz Zeid, June 20, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Swift, Woods, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ The sight of you is good for sore eyes. Feraz Zeid, June 15, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Swift, Eye, Sight, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Swift, Green, Trunks, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Swift, Evil, Guilt, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Swift, Education, Lifts, Noses, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Poet · France
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. - Jean-Francois Lyotard
When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up. - Jennifer Granholm Politician · USA
Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal. - William Jennings Bryan Lawyer and politician · USA
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, “He who hates vice hates mankind.” - William Macneile Dixon
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. - William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
