Jonathan Swift — "The stoical scheme of supplying our wants, by lopping off our desires, is like c…"
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants, by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from Jonathan Swift
"For we are told by a grave author, an eminent French physician, that health is the most valuable of all possessions; and that it is to be acquired by eating, and by drinking, and by sleeping, and by e…"
"Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light."
"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it."
"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it."
"May you live all the days of your life."
About Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Anglo-Irish satirist and Dean of Dublin's St Patrick's Cathedral whose Gulliver's Travels (1726) and A Modest Proposal (1729) are the canonical English-language satires. Closely associated with Alexander Pope (Scriblerus Club poet and collaborator) and John Gay (Beggar's Opera author and satirical contemporary). For an intellectual contrast, see Daniel Defoe, English Whig journalist and Robinson Crusoe author (1660-1731) — Defoe's Crusoe (1719) celebrates Enlightenment self-reliance and the colonial-mercantile project; Swift's Gulliver (1726) systematically dismantles every form of human pretension Defoe celebrated. The cleanest Augustan Whig-vs-Tory literary pairing — optimistic-empirical vs misanthropic-satirical.