Quote

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

Jonathan Swift

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
Essayist
Human Rights Activist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Pamphleteer
Philosopher
Poet
Priest
Prosaist
Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
Forever
Age
Live
Nobody
Grow
Wants
Grows
Everybody

More quotes by Jonathan Swift

Image
Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.
Jonathan Swift
Image
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.
Jonathan Swift
Image
I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.
Jonathan Swift
Image
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.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
Jonathan Swift
Image
The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Jonathan Swift
Image
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Jonathan Swift
Image
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift
Image
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Books, the children of the brain.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
Jonathan Swift
Image
All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
Jonathan Swift
Image
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Big-endians and small-endians.
Jonathan Swift
Image
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.
Jonathan Swift
Image
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
Jonathan Swift
Image
And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?
Jonathan Swift
Image
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