No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Jonathan Swift

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift

With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
Rodney Dangerfield

No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne Frank

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de Gaulle

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.
Donald Trump

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
George S. Patton

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
George S. Patton

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.
Ernest Holmes

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Voltaire

I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Voltaire

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Voltaire

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
Voltaire

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
William Osler