Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is o... -Jonathan Swift

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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

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Jonathan Swift Quotes to Explore

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman....
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly....
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed....
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through....
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions....
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken....
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster....
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder....
May you live all the days of your life....
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit....

Age Quotes to Explore

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken Engl...
The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?...
I grew up in Welwyn Garden City, and when you're a woman of colour in a predominantly white area, you become aware of prejudice from a young age....
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked....
Some fighters had blinding speed and reflexes in their heyday but faded badly with age....
I prefer to look at a natural woman. A woman should be courageous to become older, not desperate to look younger than her age....
Nobody under the age of 55 should be able to stand for election, and nobody under the age of 30 should be able to vote in those elections....
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for ...
Maybe at some level, even at an early age, without ever being aware of it, I was reacting to something. To people judging me based on how I looked ins...
I came to America at such a young age, and I was so naive that I didn't realise what I was getting myself into; maybe that's why it worked out for me....