Jonathan Swift Quotes About Observation

Quotes about: Observation

• Observation is an old man's memory.

  Jonathan Swift

  Memories, Men, Literature

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”

• A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Games, Play, May

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). “Miscellaneous pieces”, p.4

• Careful observers may foretell the hour
  (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r.
  While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er
  Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.

  Jonathan Swift

  Rain, Cat, Giving

  Jonathan Swift (1984). “Jonathan Swift”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press

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