Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.