Jonathan Swift Quotes:
Ocupation: Pamphleteer
Life: November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745
Birthday: November 30
Death: October 19
The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
source: Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.202
topic: Spring, Mean, Rivers, Great Events
