Alexander Pope Quotes, Thoughts and images

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Every professional was once an amateur.

Expression is the dress of thought.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

how many wars were waged in thy name?

Love the offender, yet detest the offence.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

An excuse is more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

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

Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.