Jonathan Swift Time Quotations

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 proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

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 put into our heads before.