O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
ALEXANDER POPEAn excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
-
-
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
ALEXANDER POPE -
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE -
The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Expression is the dress of thought.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
ALEXANDER POPE -
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE -
A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPE -
There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE -
He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
ALEXANDER POPE -
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPE -
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
ALEXANDER POPE -
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
ALEXANDER POPE -
There is a majesty in simplicity.
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 wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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 -
All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPE