No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. – Jonathan Swift
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. – Jonathan Swift
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. – Jonathan Swift
I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. – Jonathan Swift
Well, Im in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. – Christopher Hitchens