Jonathan Swift Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

  Jonathan Swift

  Happiness, Pain, Years

  "Complete Works of Jonathan Swift".

• Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strong, Pain, Irritation

• Love why do we one passion call,
  When 'tis a compound of them all?
  Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet,
  In all their equipages meet;
  Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear,
  Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.

  Jonathan Swift

  Love, Sweet, Pain

  Jonathan Swift (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.681

• Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wisdom, Pain, Hunting

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