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

Quote by Jonathan Swift

Topics: Age Quotes, Talent Quotes, Youth Quotes

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever...

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever...

May you live all the days of your life.

May you live all the days of your life.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is...

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is...

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the...

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the...

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more...

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more...

Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well-deceived

Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well-deceived

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

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

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but...

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but...

He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.

He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime...

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime...

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices...

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices...

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all...

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all...

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter,...

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter,...

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their...

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their...

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their...

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their...

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in...

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in...