"There seems to be no part of..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift

“It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.”

“So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns”

“Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.”

“If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?”

“Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.”

“It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.”

“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.”

“Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.”

“Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.”