Jonathan Swift Quotes About Old Age

Quotes about: Old Age

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Cute, Men, Long

• 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 a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

  Jonathan Swift

  Love, Learning, Men

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

• Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

  Jonathan Swift

  Forever, Age, Want

• When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sacrifice, Men, Leaving

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...”, p.365

• Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Long, Age

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

• Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

  Jonathan Swift

  Long, Age, Desire

• Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wine, Judging, Temptation

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.612

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