Jonathan Swift Quotes about Time

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

Birthday, Wise, Time

Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Jonathan Swift

Funny, Life, Time

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Jonathan Swift

Funny, Marriage, Time

'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

Jonathan Swift

Time, Thinking, Self Improvement

Letter to Bolingbroke, 21 March 1730, in Harold Williams (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift' vol. 3 (1963) p. 382

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

Jonathan Swift

Time, Lasts, World

Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Riddles [and poems] by Dr. Swift and his friends. Verses addressed to Swift and to his memory. Epistolary correspondence”, p.25

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

Jonathan Swift

Time, People, Giving

Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.222