Jonathan Swift Quotes About Old Age
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Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
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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.
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Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
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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.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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