What did Jonathan Swift mean by: There’s none so blind as they that won’t see. - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland Copy
+ No wise man ever wished to be younger. Feraz Zeid, June 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Swift, Birthday, Time, Wise, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. Feraz Zeid, August 4, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Swift, Food, Oysters, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Swift, Devotion, Heaven, Prayer, 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
+ Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Swift, Drama, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ Faith, that’s as well said as if I had said it myself. Feraz Zeid, June 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Swift, Conceited, 0 - Jonathan Swift Satirist and essayist · Ireland
+ Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Swift, Feet, Science, 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
Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.] - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Hi, I’m Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don’t drink and drive. I don’t… you’re blind! - Jeff Healey
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens. - William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France