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
erring chance discord
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
running take-a-chance chances-are
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
friendship virtue
There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
gratitude eye yellow
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
philosophy men mind
T is true,t is certain; man though dead retains, Part of himself: the immortal mind remains.
learning views may
Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
happiness kings bliss
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
fear land aids
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
learning style strange
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
lying world stones
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
gratitude eye yellow
All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
art genius study
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
empathy lazy frost
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
bird woe merit
Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.