Alexander Pope Famous Quotes
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
"To err is human to forgive, divine."
"In words as fashions the same rule will hold,Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried,Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of Mankind is Man."
"Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,To taste awhile the pleasures of a courtIn various talk th'instuctive hours they past,Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lastOne speaks the glory of the British Queen,And one describes a charming Indian screenlA third interprets motions, looks and eyesAt every word a reputation dies."
"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon."
"Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found."
"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot."
"Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return."
"In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part."
"It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out."
"Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after."
"Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies."
"Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer."
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
"Fools admire, but men of sense approve."
"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
"Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend."
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
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 Pope Quotations
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil
Golda Meir
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
Bible
Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
American Proverb
"Reuben Look, we all go way back and uh, I owe you from the thing with the guy in the place and I'll never forget it."
Ocean s Eleven
"Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else."
George Dennison Prentice
Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
Margaret Cho
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
Malcolm Muggeridge
"To understand is to forgive, even oneself."
Alexander Chase
"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble."
Washington Irving