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
life play age
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.
life peculiar nutrition
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
life morning prayer
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.
erring chance discord
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
running take-a-chance chances-are
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
friendship virtue
There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
gratitude eye yellow
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
philosophy men mind
T is true,t is certain; man though dead retains, Part of himself: the immortal mind remains.
learning views may
Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
happiness kings bliss
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
fear land aids
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
learning style strange
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
lying world stones
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
gratitude eye yellow
All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]