Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPEAs with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
-
-
What will a child learn sooner than a song?
ALEXANDER POPE -
A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
ALEXANDER POPE -
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
ALEXANDER POPE -
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
ALEXANDER POPE -
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
ALEXANDER POPE -
This long disease, my life.
ALEXANDER POPE -
The laughers are a majority.
ALEXANDER POPE -
True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPE -
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
ALEXANDER POPE -
To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
ALEXANDER POPE