Swiftian Humor Quotes & Sayings

Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble. — John Gunther

I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn't enjoy. — Joe Namath

When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news. — Anthony Horowitz

Maps? There are no maps.
I go by dark ways, unclean ways. If such a map existed, it would be beyond price. Nameless cults would battle in the low places of the earth for such a price. Dreamers would starve themselves in endless visions seeking its location.
Such a map would have to be drawn on the skin of a black he-goat, in virgin's blood, with a brush made of dragon's eyelashes. The cartographer would go mad, and it would profane the hands that touched it. — Ursula Vernon

Even toward the middle of the century, there were occasions when the London mailbag for Edinburgh was found to contain only a single letter. — Bernard Bailyn

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. — William Faulkner

Liberation from every form of exploitation, the possibility of a more human and dignified life, the creation of a new humankind - all pass through this struggle. — Gustavo Gutierrez