We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.
Quote by Jonathan Swift
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.
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Jonathan Swift Quotes
- It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
- Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
- I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
- We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.
- A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
- Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.
- We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.
- As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
- When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
- One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Best Quotes
- Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
- Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
- If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.
- To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.
- I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
- I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.
- The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
- A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
- Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.