“So Geographers in Afric-mapsWith Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps;And o'er uninhabitable DownsPlace Elephants for want of Towns”
Jonathan Swift
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince
“This book fills a much-needed gap.”
Moses Hadas
“Love fills all the gaps in our souls.”
Alex Adams
White Horse
“Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?”
John Barth
The Sot-Weed Factor
“Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.”
Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion