--- title: "4 Endeavor Quotes By Jonathan Swift" description: "4 Endeavor quotes by Jonathan Swift. Plus more from Jonathan Swift and more Endeavor sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e78/jonathan-swift-433_comparison_this-made-me-reflect-how-vain-an-attempt_924337.jpg" --- > [This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/this-made-me-reflect-how-vain-an-attempt-it-is-for-a-man-to-endeavor/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e78/jonathan-swift-433_comparison_this-made-me-reflect-how-vain-an-attempt_924337.jpg) > [Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/lose-no-time-to-contradict-her-nor-endeavor-to-convict-her-only-take/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49f/jonathan-swift-433_advise_lose-no-time-to-contradict-her-nor-endea_2282305.jpg) > [There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/there-are-but-three-ways-for-a-man-to-revenge-himself-of-the-censure/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/811/jonathan-swift-433_censure_there-are-but-three-ways-for-a-man-to-re_2718817.jpg) > [No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/no-man-of-honor-as-the-word-is-usually-understood-did-ever-pretend/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55b/jonathan-swift-433_being-wise_no-man-of-honor-as-the-word-is-usually-u_2854359.jpg) ## Other authors on Endeavor - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/thomas-jefferson/) - [Samuel Johnson 13 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/samuel-johnson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-einstein-10494.jpg) Albert Einstein 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/albert-einstein/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-baruch-spinoza-16597.jpg) Baruch Spinoza 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/baruch-spinoza/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-aung-san-suu-kyi-15696.jpg) Aung San Suu Kyi 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/aung-san-suu-kyi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-a-kempis-90210.jpg) Thomas a Kempis 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/thomas-a-kempis/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-theodore-roosevelt-90083.jpg) Theodore Roosevelt 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/theodore-roosevelt/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-ralph-marston-77085.jpg) Ralph Marston 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/ralph-marston/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-blaise-pascal-18353.jpg) Blaise Pascal 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/blaise-pascal/) ## More by Jonathan Swift > [Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/time-is-painted-with-a-lock-before-and-bald-behind-signifying-thereby/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/he-said-he-knew-no-reason-why-those-who-entertain-opinions/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/i-with-borrow-d-silver-shine-what-you-see-is-none-of-mine-first-i/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/a-favor-is-half-granted-when-graciously-refused/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/i-never-wonder-to-see-men-wicked-but-i-often-wonder-to-see-them-not/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/the-best-maxim-i-know-in-this-life-is-to-drink-your-coffee-when-you/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [A lie is an excuse guarded](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/a-lie-is-an-excuse-guarded/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/a-forward-critic-often-dupes-us-with-sham-quotations-peri-hupsos-and/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [May you live every day of your life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/may-you-live-every-day-of-your-life/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/ale-is-meat-drink-and-cloth-it-will-make-a-cat-speak-and-a-wise-man/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/all-fits-of-pleasure-are-balanced-by-an-equal-degree-of-pain-or/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/satire-is-a-sort-of-glass-wherein-beholders-do-generally-discover/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/when-a-great-genius-appears-in-the-world-you-may-know-him-by-this/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/i-have-ever-hated-all-nations-professions-and-communities-and-all-my/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/so-endless-and-exorbitant-are-the-desires-of-men-that-they-will-grasp/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/jonathan-swift/#itemlist", "name": "4 Endeavor Quotes By Jonathan Swift", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonathan Swift" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/this-made-me-reflect-how-vain-an-attempt-it-is-for-a-man-to-endeavor/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e78/jonathan-swift-433_comparison_this-made-me-reflect-how-vain-an-attempt_924337.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e78/jonathan-swift-433_comparison_this-made-me-reflect-how-vain-an-attempt_924337.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e78/jonathan-swift-433_comparison_this-made-me-reflect-how-vain-an-attempt_924337.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who…” — Jonathan Swift", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; 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