Jonathan Swift Quotes About Aging

Quotes about: Aging

• No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Life, Time

• Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

  Jonathan Swift

  Cute, Men, Long

• No wise man ever wished to be younger.

  Jonathan Swift

  Birthday, Wise, Time

  Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

• The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Time, Age

• Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

  Jonathan Swift

  Long, Age, Desire

• This Day, whate'er the Fates decree;
  Shall still be kept with Joy by me:
  This Day then, let us not be told,
  That you are sick, and I grown old

  Jonathan Swift

  Fate, Sick, Joy

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous poems”, p.500

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