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
dream english-poet men
Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
failure pride men
Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
blessed men expect-nothing
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
mind mental-illness finest
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
men wife aids
For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
men insult swearing
And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
men he-man lost
Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
book men clothes
To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
men goal wheels
So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
loss men common-sense
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
book fate men
Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
laughter men laughing
The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
men noses littles
Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
men world good-nature
A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.