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• We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
• provocative maintenance n. [common ironic mutation of `preventive maintenance'] Actions performed upon a machine at regularly scheduled intervals to ensure that the system remains in a usable state.
  So called because it is all too often performed by a field servoid who doesn't know what he is doing...
• provocative maintenance: [common ironic mutation of `preventive maintenance'] n.
  Actions performed upon a machine at regularly scheduled intervals to ensure that the system remains in a usable state....
• When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)...
• As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Sect. vii...
• When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings.
  -- Jonathan Swif...
• If a man should register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc.
  beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last....
• There is none so blind as they that won't see.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue iii...
• There is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
  Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Gulliver's Travel...