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Age Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
- If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what…
- When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
- What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I…
- If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know…
- Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
- Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are…
- By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
- Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
- Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
- Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
- No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
- We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
- Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
- When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings.
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