"No wise man ever wished to be..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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“By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.”
“I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.”
“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.”
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“The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it.”
“It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.”
“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”
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“The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.”
“Because we're old as sh*t. What do you want?”
“If they want to win right now, I'm all for it. That's all I said the whole time. If you want to wait five years, let me know. My legs aren't as young as they used to be.”