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Old Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- 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.
- The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.
- I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
- 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…
- 'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend…
- 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…
- Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
- Observation is an old man's memory.
- I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year…
- Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or…
- Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
- I have almost done with harridans, and shall soon become old enough to fall in love with girls of fourteen
- 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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