If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
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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 Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo
PAUL KRASSNER I would have made a good Pope.
RICHARD M. NIXON (If Pope John scored the next goal) it would have been over. I think that swung the whole game back ...
MIKE REYNOLDS If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have r...
NANCY HORAN If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on.
PAUL GOSAR It's been extremely gratifying for me. If someone had told me in September that I would be in this p...
FREDDY MEYER I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt.
MADONNA I have great respect for the Pope. I like the Pope. I actually like him.
DONALD TRUMP 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 am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...
MARTIN LUTHER I had big dreams when I came here, but this is an incredibly amazing gift, ... If somebody had told ...
CHARLIZE THERON Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
POPE JOHN XXIII One issue that the new pope should face is the problem on terrorism and the reasons for its being. I...
FERNANDO FLORES A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.
KYLE DUNNIGAN If you had told me ten years ago that I would be able to go and make out with Will Forte one day and...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO If someone would have told me I would have played 20 games in the NHL (this season), I would be shoc...
LEE STEMPNIAK I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.
JACKIE EVANCHO Pope John Paul IIs View of the 20th Century,
GEORGE WEIGEL I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have nev...
CHARLIE ROSE Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the...
POPE FRANCIS There was once this viral photo of the Pope doing his Pope-mobile parade, and everyone had their pho...
CHRISSY TEIGEN When I was born, if someone would have told me all the experiences that I would face throughout my l...
LEROY NELLIS II If South Korea is able to host World Youth Day, we would naturally invite the pope to come, and it w...
CARDINAL CHEONG The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss...
POPE GREGORY I Max would conclude, "that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll kee...
RICHARD RUSSO Players get destroyed. You could say you're going to draft the pope, and someone would say he's too ...
BEN DOGRA I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian thir...
MURIEL SPARK Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.
BILL WILLIAMS I'm not Catholic, but I have a great deal of respect for Pope John Paul. I think that he has sto...
JAMES DOBSON If someone had told me that with seven games left we would be the number one team in the country, I ...
ENRICO BLASI The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to ...
POPE FRANCIS If they had told me I was going into something like that, I would have given the keys back.
EDDIE SANCHEZ I think it would have been harder if we had kids...for me it was just taking care of myself.
NATASHA LOCKWOOD I probably would have done it for John Jones if he'd asked me.
JOSEPH LAWRENCE I had promised them I would stay and I always told myself if I promise someone I would stay, I would...
ANTONIO CROMARTIE To begin with, homosexuality has nothing to do with pedophilia; one is sexual orientation and the ot...
POPE JOHN PAUL I If you had told me when he made the switch that he would be on the Olympic team, I would have said h...
PAUL HEDRICK I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
MARLO THOMAS I would read all day if I could.
QUVENZHANE WALLIS I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an...
CALEB CARR Every day, if I could find someone to play with me. If I couldn't find someone to play with me, I wo...
STEPHEN COLBERT If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simp...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simp...
JOSEPH RATZINGER If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.
MANDY PATINKIN If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.
JIMMY CARTER If you would have told me before the season this would have happened, I would have been a little ske...
ANTHONY DAVIS Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I...
IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me
IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson...
IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ...
IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
IF I WAKE I'm no hero. I would have done the same thing for anyone. I told him that if it had happened the nex...
BECKY CHITTOM I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
GEORGE CARLIN I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.
GEORGE CARLIN I would have had an easier life if I were straight, but I would not be me. And I now like being myse...
ANDREW SOLOMON I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, w...
JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called the c...
SIERRA D. WATERS I did my best, so if I had to run over again, I would do the same tactics. The only thing would be I...
REIKO TOSA I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.
ELAINE STRITCH The next pope should follow the same steps that made John Paul II known around the world,
ANTONIO CARLOS I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album.
RITA RUDNER I was at a U2 concert and someone asked me if my hair color was real... I thought to myself, if I ha...
ANGIE EVERHART If I didn't have him I would be gone, if I never had him would I have loved?
CRISTABEL MICHAELS If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN If I knew he loved me for my wealth, I would have told him I was richer.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA If someone told me this morning I'd win a third goal medal I'd have said 'that would be great' becau...
MICHAEL GREIS I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one...
ALEXIS BLEDEL The most important issue is the decline in priests and other religious (people). I hope a new pope w...
CLAIRE TURNER It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT When someone drew a picture of Pope John wearing an Avis 'We try harder' button, those words...
CORITA KENT An ambassador for peace, Pope John Paul II stood steadfast against communism and condemned discrimin...
SHELLEY BERKLEY I remember, years ago, if I had had an opportunity to leave the Lakers, I would have left for one re...
JERRY WEST The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone
ITALIAN PROVERB As some to church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
ALEXANDER POPE Edgar asked me, 'Do you know anything about John Lennon,' ... I said, 'I know everything about John ...
DON SCARDINO When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you becom...
PABLO PICASSO It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I mus...
POPE JOHN XXIII I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.
MARTIN LUTHER I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist
MARTIN LUTHER If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gay...
TROY PERRY I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. T...
BILL HICKS Quincy called one and I told them we only had one and told them we needed one at the end. But those ...
GARY WATERS I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'
ELLEN STOFAN I had planned on coming back to get clothes for the next day, but I couldn't get in the building. It...
BEN PIERCE I knew if I had gone to school - if I had gone to Juilliard and danced for four years - I would have...
JACOB ARTIST I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.
RICHARD DAWKINS I was really into '24' at university, and it resulted in a lot of lost hours that could have...
EMILY BERRINGTON She called me at 6 a.m. yesterday and said, 'You know what, if you had asked me, I would have told y...
MEREDITH VIEIRA I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if...
BARRY GOLDWATER If he did, I didn't know about it and he would have told me.
GEORGE WILSON My wife expects me to be on a plane to Rome for the CBS screening of the CBS TV movie about Pope Joh...
ARN TELLEM There are two people -- my mother and Pope John Paul II -- that will always stay vividly in my mind,
WILLIAM KEELER If they would've told me I needed to pay a light bill, I would have paid it.
CATHERINE CLARK My doctors told me I would have to go into the hospital if I don't get it.
ELLEN SMITH If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to ...
BARRY STERNLICHT This one guy told me that if he had known that, he would have already taken care of it,
BILL WRIGHT They told me during last night's game that I might be starting today. I did my normal day before rou...
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POPE JOHN Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
POPE JOHN XXIII Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of...
POPE JOHN XXIII Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose th...
POPE JOHN XXIII My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.
POPE JOHN XXIII It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is fo...
POPE JOHN XXIII Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
POPE JOHN XXIII The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light...
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POPE JOHN XXIII The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
POPE JOHN XXIII Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.
POPE JOHN XXIII Christian life means sacrifice.
POPE JOHN XXIII Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
POPE JOHN XXIII Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
POPE JOHN XXIII Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon ...
POPE JOHN XXIII The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
POPE JOHN XXIII Christ's flock is made up of sheep that not only listen to their shepherd, but are also able to ...
POPE JOHN XXIII The family is the first essential cell of human society.
POPE JOHN XXIII A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
POPE JOHN XXIII It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
POPE JOHN XXIII I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking a...
POPE JOHN XXIII Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.
POPE JOHN XXIII It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I mus...
POPE JOHN XXIII Christ's Church is, above all, the spiritual temple where every Christian knows he has his place...
POPE JOHN XXIII See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
POPE JOHN XXIII Every Christian must be convinced of his fundamental and vital duty of bearing witness to the truth ...
POPE JOHN XXIII In this world of ours, every believer must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying fermen...
POPE JOHN XXIII When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comf...
POPE JOHN XXIII He would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea...but know th...
POPE JOHN XXII If God created shadows it was to better emphasize the light
POPE JOHN XXIII I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
POPE JOHN XXIII I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
POPE JOHN XXIII Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways: women, gambling, and farming. My family chose th...
POPE JOHN XXIII We ardently desire their return to the house of the common Father they will not enter a strange hous...
POPE JOHN XXIII I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end.
POPE JOHN XXIII See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little
POPE JOHN XXII You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.
POPE JOHN XXIII You get to pay for it, ... You guys are going to pay. Nobody wants to turn down the fire department.
POPE JOHN XXIII We are in the same boat.
POPE CLEMENT I (CLEMENS ROMANUS) Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro...
POPE JOHN PAUL II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
POPE JOHN PAUL II [I kiss the soil] as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mo...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Pervading materialism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. Wh...
POPE JOHN PAUL II As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Another key element of human ecology is the inviolability of human life, especially at its beginning...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II ...A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must gi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof o...
POPE JOHN PAUL II You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder b...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two lov...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...
POPE JOHN PAUL II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e...
POPE JOHN PAUL II You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The future starts today, not tomorrow.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
POPE JOHN PAUL II There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
POPE JOHN PAUL II War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for t...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it
POPE JOHN PAUL II Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with...
POPE JOHN PAUL II What shall I say? Everything that I could say would fade into insignificance compared with what my h...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The Holy See continues to maintain that only a special statute, internationally guaranteed, can effe...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The inalienable dignity of every human being and the rights which flow from that dignity - in the fi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Anything done for another is done for oneself.
POPE JOHN PAUL II At that time, I heard you say in Gdansk, 'There is no freedom without solidarity.' Today we need to ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the worl...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I am expressing a very, very heartfelt thank you for being here, and I am very grateful you are host...
POPE JOHN PAUL II You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are servi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
POPE JOHN PAUL II A happy new year to all of you, men and women of every part of the world.
POPE JOHN PAUL II From the cave of Bethlehem there rises today an urgent appeal to the world not to yield to mistrust,...
POPE JOHN PAUL II In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred an...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
POPE JOHN PAUL II It is not credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and ye...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a communi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ...
POPE FRANCIS The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
POPE FRANCIS Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
POPE FRANCIS A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
POPE FRANCIS The proper study of Mankind is Man.
ALEXANDER POPE And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
ALEXANDER POPE So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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.
ALEXANDER POPE Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPE The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own pe...
ALEXANDER POPE Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPE A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
ALEXANDER POPE Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPE Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what...
POPE FRANCIS Money has to serve, not to rule.
POPE FRANCIS Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
POPE FRANCIS We all have the duty to do good.
POPE FRANCIS From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...
POPE FRANCIS In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
POPE FRANCIS When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without ...
POPE FRANCIS The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and b...
POPE FRANCIS Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who hear...
ALEXANDER POPE See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philos...
ALEXANDER POPE Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ...
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.
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