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• He had 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.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Gulliver's Travels, Part iii, Chap. v, Voyage to Laputa...
• And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of co
  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....
• There is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
  Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Gulliver's Travel...
• More knave than fool. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iv, Chap.
  iv...
• Books, the children of the brain. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Sect. i
• T is as cheap sitting as standing.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue i...
• I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. Jonathan Swif
• Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -- Jonathan Kozol
• I shall be like that tree,--I shall die at the top.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Scott's Life of Swif...