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
wise wisdom littles
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
wisdom opinion scales
Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
education wisdom stupid-people
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
wisdom men taught
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
wise wisdom whole
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
dance wisdom time
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
wisdom fear angel
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
curse law-and-lawyers love
Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
draw peculiar plan
Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
last lay
Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
blessed expects man ninth shall
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude
college die endow
Die and endow a college or a cat.
excuse worse
An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
dear gold grow rust
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old:It is the rust we value, not the gold.