Jonathan Swift Quote

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.


A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation (ed. 1738)


Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.