Jonathan Swift Quotes About Youth
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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