Quote #101
Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples.
More from Alexander Pope
- Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.
- Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
- He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
- The most positive men are the most credulous:
- A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labour of the bees, will of…
- To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
- For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
- Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!