Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
Alexander Popewas an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 May 1688
believe watches judgment
Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
Whatever is, is right.
wise pain women
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
dust cold break
Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
passion reason undone
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
nice stupid literature
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
inspirational inspiring simplicity
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
stupid fool knows
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
birthday graduation education
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
pride haughtiness erring
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
honesty character men
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
doctors doubt like-you
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
humor literature form
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
health temperance
Health consists with temperance alone.