Jonathan Swift Quotes

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. ~ Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." ~ Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. ~ Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift