Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pope

Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

Alexander Pope

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

Alexander Pope

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

Alexander Pope

Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

Alexander Pope

Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

Alexander Pope

Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

Alexander Pope

See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

Alexander Pope

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

Alexander Pope

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

Alexander Pope

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

Alexander Pope

Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

Alexander Pope

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

Alexander Pope

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

Alexander Pope

She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.

Alexander Pope

The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.

Alexander Pope

For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

Alexander Pope

For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

Alexander Pope

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.

Alexander Pope

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

Alexander Pope

Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

Alexander Pope

This long disease, my life.

Alexander Pope

Passions are the gales of life.

Alexander Pope

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Alexander Pope

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Alexander Pope

How vast a memory has Love!

Alexander Pope

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.

Alex Kingston

If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.

Alex Haley

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

Albert Schweitzer

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

Albert Schweitzer

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. Muscle contraction is only one of these adaptations. In principle it would not matter whether we studied nerve, kidney or muscle to understand the basic principles of life. In practice, however, it matters a great deal.