Jonathan Swift Life Quotations

May you live all the days of your life.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

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

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.