He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
ALEXANDER POPEAn obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
-
-
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.
ALEXANDER POPE -
All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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 -
A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
ALEXANDER POPE -
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE -
The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Passions are the gales of life.
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 -
Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
ALEXANDER POPE -
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
ALEXANDER POPE







