Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swiftwas an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth30 November 1667
CountryIreland
age-and-aging god grow men merely sacrifice virtuous
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings
age might debate
Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
judging age literature
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
nurse miracle age
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
taken age next
It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.
reading thinking age
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
kings age reform
The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
men age genius
There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.
two age might
Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.
wise time age
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
taken light age
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
men long age
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
men age criticism
If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
forever age want
Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.