« All Time Quotes · Jonathan Swift's Page
Time Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to…
- But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a…
- The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
- For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little…
- Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once…
- No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
- No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
- If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
- Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
- The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
- Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after
More Time Quotes
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- A Very Good Relationship Needs Just 2 Things..... A Little Time To Be Spent With Them And A True Care To Be… — Ritu Ghatourey
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams