My dad was a gentle giant who would have done anything for anybody.
Thomas Pope
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Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.
TONY SCOTT He was a gentle giant, a big guy with a big heart.
ANN MURPHY They value education, they are kind, giving people who would do anything for anybody.
LINDA GENTILE My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to bel...
MARILYN MANSON Coach Stein has always been genuine and honest with me and my mom and dad. There's probably not anot...
CARLYNN SAVANT My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h...
GREGG ALLMAN Nobody was stopping anybody ... it was just a matter of who would have the ball last.
RUSS HOCHSTEIN I would have made a good Pope.
RICHARD M. NIXON I don't think anybody would have a problem if it's done discreetly.
KEN ROSEVEAR There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are p...
BILLY SUNDAY Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
POPE JOHN XXIII Nothing was said before this incident that would have brought anybody to a conclusion that anything ...
ED TAYLOR The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom ...
ISAAC BROCK If anything normal were useful it would have been done already. That's why my motto is "Dare to Diff...
MATTHEW GOLDFINGER My dad took me to the racetrack for the first time when I was 2 or 3... Anything with a motor, that ...
LYNSI TORRES Whatever I did would be something they'd already done. I mean, my Dad would welcome it if I got a no...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insur...
AMERICA FERRERA My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.
MATTHEW GOODE My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great exam...
CAT CORA When my dad was alive, he would give them to the kids. People didn't have a lot of money, so they di...
HOLLY HUNTER When I was young, I was the kid who would call my dad from a slumber party to beg him to come pick m...
KENDALL JENNER My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done...
DAVID CHANG If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be h...
HANNA ROSIN My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preach...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything di...
LISA SEE John would do anything for anybody. I've seen him help so many people.
DEBRA CLEMONS I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt.
MADONNA I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I w...
SAM HUNTINGTON My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would ...
RACHEL HUNTER I would say the dumbest thing I have heard is that my dad isn't my real dad.
KHLOE KARDASHIAN My dad was a great dad.
BIJOU PHILLIPS He'd been too late for Sin. He'd been too weak for Lou. He'd been too young for his dad. They'd all ...
AIS I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album.
RITA RUDNER Kate would have Thomas, no one blame her can: Tom won't have Kate, and who can blame the Man?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If we wouldn't have done anything, we would have spent more.
TERRY JENKINS Music for me would have been a Religion. If there was anything I would worship after God and My Pare...
OLASOT My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything y...
JAMES NESBITT A Man Who Became Pope
KAROL WOJTYLA A lot of people don't realize this, but probably the one person that gets made fun of in 'So...
TREY PARKER There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
THOMAS A. EDISON Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the...
TONY SCOTT I didn't want to be a dad under those circumstances. I never wanted to have to have children who wou...
RUSSELL CROWE Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Gre...
CRAIG CLAIBORNE The whole thing fell in like an accordion, ... Anybody who was out in that room would have been dead...
CHARLES SPENCER I have great respect for the Pope. I like the Pope. I actually like him.
DONALD TRUMP There's some things I've done wrong that I've asked forgiveness for, and there's some things other p...
MIKE DUBOSE For anybody who would underestimate SAFER, I would say a lot of people underestimated them in Denver...
BRUCE MIRKEN anything else?
ANYTHING My brothers bullied me, so I cried a lot as a kid. It was the only defense I had. Telling them to st...
STEVEN ADAMS My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him w...
RACHEL JOYCE Pope John Paul II was a great presence on the stage. Pope Benedict is a much more gentle and refined...
VINCENT NICHOLS The election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as pope is an enormous disappointment for all those who ho...
HANS KUNG If I have to go into that good night, I'm goin' gentle; the hell with whoever said not to. Th...
GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER Why would she have done such a thing if she knew what she was doing. She never did anything else wro...
BILL SCHULTZ My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was ...
GARETH BALE I don't think anybody in my graduating class would have figured that I would be doing full-on si...
BROOKE NEVIN My dad was a good man, he had standards, principles, and a code of honor.I always wanted to say the ...
GARY F EVANS... Many girls, without my dad, never would have attempted to play sports,
JULIE NELSON No, that wasn't my belief because . . . I couldn't predict what anybody would do prior to the meetin...
CURTIS JENKINS The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybod...
KURT VONNEGUT It was conferred on me for my art, not for my being Jewish -- for my art and my service to this pope...
GILBERT LEVINE He [Slipper] was a gentle giant and that sort of weight carries some force in the underworld. He was...
BRUCE REYNOLDS It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have...
HEATHER GRAHAM I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate the...
MATT SMITH If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
POPE JOHN I If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
JOSEPH JOUBERT If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder
POPE JOHN PAUL I My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mothe...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH You could buy anything there ... a full-service store with a meat market and everything. My dad prov...
ANNIE MCGEE She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew t...
MARGARET MCMULLAN Michael Clarke Duncan and I met at a music festival that was honoring films, and we happened to be s...
NIKKI BLONSKY My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he wa...
MIKE ROWE Anybody who shoots a firearm at a dog or anything else when he had no reason to should lose their jo...
AMY NORMAN My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
MADI DIAZ I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spen...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhe...
JOHN ASTIN I have such fond memories of watching 'Doctor Who' when I was a kid and growing up, that if ...
DAVID TENNANT I couldn't have done anything without the front line opening up the holes like they did. Shannon Gra...
ERIC MCDANIEL My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My da...
TONY HALE I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth a...
GROVER CLEVELAND A lot of people come in and talk about my brother. It keeps his memory alive. He was the type of guy...
GREG MOWBRAY I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything. I don't think that my wife did anything wrong, I don't ...
ANTONIO DAVIS If anything would have happened to any of them (workers), I just don't know what I would have done.
KATHY BAKER If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has...
THOMAS FULLER Thank God it was him. If he hadn't done it, who knows what would have happened?
BROOKE WILLIAMS A father - son transplant would have the best chance for success, and I want to keep my dad around a...
DARREN LINDSEY If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my ...
FRANK LAMPARD My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a la...
BENICIO DEL TORO My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it w...
BILL BURR My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and ...
NOLAN GOULD If my daughter had been in her right mind, she would never, ever have taken the kids with her that d...
CHUCK JONES Honestly, Coach is great. He's like a father figure to me because he's so hard on me. Growing up, my...
NATE ROBINSON I wouldn't have done any of it if I hadn't taken that course. When I was younger my dad would show m...
AMY MLINAR I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of th...
CATE BLANCHETT My dad was an amazing father. He was very loving and supportive. He was the best dad you could ever ...
KRISTIN HAWKINS Thomas was the kind of guy who made everybody laugh.
DWAINE CARPENTER I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pop...
MARTIN LUTHER I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Re...
NOAH BAUMBACH I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo
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ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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ALEXANDER POPE Never find fault with the absent.
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ALEXANDER POPE Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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POPE FRANCIS Money has to serve, not to rule.
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ALEXANDER POPE See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philos...
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ALEXANDER POPE Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And h...
ALEXANDER POPE It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
ALEXANDER POPE The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
POPE FRANCIS The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
ALEXANDER POPE How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
ALEXANDER POPE Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays til...
ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?
ALEXANDER POPE A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
ALEXANDER POPE I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always ...
CARLY POPE I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.
CARLY POPE I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's no...
CARLY POPE People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's...
CARLY POPE I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find t...
CARLY POPE But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.
ALEXANDER POPE The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
ALEXANDER POPE We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
ALEXANDER POPE What riches give us let us then inquire:
Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
ALEXANDER POPE Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.
ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon
the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
ALEXANDER POPE But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
ALEXANDER POPE Most women have no characters at all.
ALEXANDER POPE Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil...
ALEXANDER POPE Most authors steal their works, or buy.
ALEXANDER POPE Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPE True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
ALEXANDER POPE Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
ALEXANDER POPE The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
ALEXANDER POPE They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS It doesn't bother me that people think that Blake Shelton made me go country, because I can unde...
CASSADEE POPE Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
ALEXANDER POPE We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
ALEXANDER POPE Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
ALEXANDER POPE Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not t...
ALEXANDER POPE Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
ALEXANDER POPE Others import yet nobler arts from France,
Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
ALEXANDER POPE In Faith and Hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER POPE A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
ALEXANDER POPE To err is human, to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
ALEXANDER POPE At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
ALEXANDER POPE Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
ALEXANDER POPE Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
ALEXANDER POPE Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by prece...
ALEXANDER POPE Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake...
ALEXANDER POPE From pride, from pride, our very reas
ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPE An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
ALEXANDER POPE All nature is but art unknown to thee.
ALEXANDER POPE All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPE For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
ALEXANDER POPE Die and endow a college or a cat.
ALEXANDER POPE But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heav...
ALEXANDER POPE Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
ALEXANDER POPE True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
ALEXANDER POPE Wit is the lowest form of humor.
ALEXANDER POPE True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Placed on this...
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow d...
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There sha...
ALEXANDER POPE Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
ALEXANDER POPE In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix
ALEXANDER POPE You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
ALEXANDER POPE Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
ALEXANDER POPE Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a...
ALEXANDER POPE Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
ALEXANDER POPE True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
ALEXANDER POPE When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
ALEXANDER POPE I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
ALEXANDER POPE Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,
To taste awhile the pleasures of a court;
In various talk...
ALEXANDER POPE Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
ALEXANDER POPE What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
ALEXANDER POPE I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
ALEXANDER POPE Health consists with temperance alone.
ALEXANDER POPE Act well your part; there all honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE An honest man's the noblest work of God.
ALEXANDER POPE Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
ALEXANDER POPE For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
ALEXANDER POPE And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
ALEXANDER POPE We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
ALEXANDER POPE The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
ALEXANDER POPE Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
ALEXANDER POPE To err is human; to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; ALEXANDER POPE By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
ALEXANDER POPE To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
ALEXANDER POPE Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged th...
ALEXANDER POPE Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more ...
ALEXANDER POPE Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
ALEXANDER POPE Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing ...
ALEXANDER POPE Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! l...
ALEXANDER POPE Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
ALEXANDER POPE Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
ALEXANDER POPE Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
ALEXANDER POPE The starving chemist in his golden views
Supremely blest.
ALEXANDER POPE Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand,
And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
ALEXANDER POPE Our rural ancestors with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulg'd the d...
ALEXANDER POPE In cold December fragrant chaplets blow,
And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
ALEXANDER POPE The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
ALEXANDER POPE Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
ALEXANDER POPE Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
ALEXANDER POPE To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
ALEXANDER POPE Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame,
Will never mark the marble with his Name.
ALEXANDER POPE No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n,
Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n;
But such...
ALEXANDER POPE On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
ALEXANDER POPE Ask you what provocation I have had?
The strong antipathy of good to bad.
ALEXANDER POPE Learn of the little nautilus to sail,
Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
ALEXANDER POPE The blest to-day is as completely so,
As who began a thousand years ago.
ALEXANDER POPE Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
ALEXANDER POPE Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray,
With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
ALEXANDER POPE Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
Ye...
ALEXANDER POPE Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps,
And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deep...
ALEXANDER POPE Accept a miracle; instead of wit,--
See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
ALEXANDER POPE I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
ALEXANDER POPE In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.
P...
ALEXANDER POPE A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
ALEXANDER POPE Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
ALEXANDER POPE Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand,
They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
ALEXANDER POPE Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme,
The air-built castle, and the golden dream,
...
ALEXANDER POPE In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true
From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
ALEXANDER POPE What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs,
What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
ALEXANDER POPE No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.
ALEXANDER POPE See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep,
And all the western world believe and sleep.
ALEXANDER POPE Where London's column, pointing at the skies,
Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
ALEXANDER POPE Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
ALEXANDER POPE The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about
anything, and that all the pains that ...
ALEXANDER POPE Judges and senates have been bought for gold;
Esteem and love were never to be sold.
ALEXANDER POPE Alas! the small discredit of a bribe
Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
ALEXANDER POPE How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
ALEXANDER POPE