Quote #41
Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
More from Jonathan Swift
- We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
- A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
- Ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit
- Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
- It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evi…
- What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly: that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
- Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two…
- The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.