Jonathan Swift Quotes

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

Jonathan Swift

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• The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Best
  • Adventure

• You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Health
  • Fight
  • Healthy

• I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • World
  • Woman
  • Gold

• I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Live
  • New
  • Four

• I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Great
  • Growth
  • Pride

• Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • May
  • Party
  • Drink

• Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Lost
  • Identity
  • Now

• When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Think
  • Winning
  • Start

• You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Death
  • Wish

• Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • Idea
  • Greater

• I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Love
  • Night
  • Ahead

• Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Die
  • Hurt
  • Say

• I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Hope
  • Dad
  • Mom

• What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Men
  • Children

• I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Up
  • Night

• There hath grown no grass on my heels since I went hence.

  

  Nicholas Udall
  • Grass
  • Heels
  • Grown

• I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.

  

  Denis Leary

• Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost dreadful, so absorbing, so stirring down to the deeps. For the tiny creature is so old and wise and sweet, and so fascinating in his sturdy common sense and clear intelligence; and his affection for me is a wonderful, exquisite thing, the sweetest flower that has bloomed for me in all my life through.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Age
  • Wise
  • Sweet

• Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • God
  • Team
  • Fall

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

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Age
  • Talent
  • Judgment