What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
