Alexander Pope Quotes & Quotations

Alexander Pope Quotes

» Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

» Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

» Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

» Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

» Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.

» Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

» Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

» Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

» We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

» And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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