Quote #69

She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

More from Jonathan Swift

  1. I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
  2. She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
  3. I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
  4. :promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
  5. 'Tis as cheap sitting as standing.
  6. He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
  7. The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
  8. That's as well said, as if I had said it myself.

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