Nobody consulted me as to whether it was a good idea or not.
Charles Pope
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AS GOOD AS IT GETS Was it a good idea or not? Was it a good idea or not? ...Be straight, Eleanor!
RICH LOWRY I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a...
ZACHARY QUINTO This is, for us, as good as it gets. Prince Charles has pretty much for 20-plus years embraced the i...
HELGE HELLBERG By Saturday morning, [the national hurricane center was] locked onto southern Louisiana. It was a pr...
BARRY KEIM It's often a good idea to let the other fellow believe he is running things whether he is or not.
WILLIAM FEATHER The idea that the doubt is left in a player's mind as to whether there was a right call or not is tr...
ARLEN KANTARIAN Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that y...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, w...
WILLIAM SCRANTON There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New...
KELLY PRICE The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make som...
DAVE MATTHEWS [As for whether Teixeira was pushed, fell or jumped,] we have no idea, ... That's the investigation.
ALEXANDRA PICAVET I see the work the pope has to do. It is a huge responsibility. Nobody campaigns for it.
ANGELO SCOLA What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Knowing Johan would, in all likelihood, be part of our one-day squad we thought maybe it was a good ...
HAROON LORGAT Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.
BETTY WHO It is to me, obvious in the memo that I wrote to Fred Fielding that it was about whether or not it's...
JOHN ROBERTS I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictat...
RAND PAUL To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This is what it had come to. Glitter. How he thought glitter had been a good idea, the Gods only kne...
K.F. BREENE As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet,...
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or
whether I am serious, just as it ...
OLIVER CROMWELL It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it i...
SALVADOR DALí It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it i...
SALVADOR DALí I don't know whether I would have gotten past Charles if he hadn't had the problems. I feel bad for ...
KATHERINE LEGGE It sounds like a good idea so as not to waste food.
JOHN FLANAGAN It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG It didn't make a difference to me who was coaching them, whether it was Eileen or a parent or an ass...
TOM LYNCH Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it ...
OPRAH WINFREY It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a hou...
NEIL GAIMAN I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.
BRUCE NASH Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It...
VALERIE SIMPSON Actually, we had contributions by all 11 girls, whether they scored or not. It was a good game from ...
TRACY ADAMS Whether you studied sexology or not, nobody will teach you how to screw, nobody will point to your v...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably i...
JACOB RUPPERT But that’s the nature of money. Whether you have it or not, whether you want it or not, whether yo...
PHIL KNIGHT To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Remind me not to launch a company again on the same day as the Industry Achievement Awards. It was a...
BILL BAXTER I should stop myself from dying if a good joke or a good idea occurred to me
VOLTAIRE While you might not expect it, predicting whether a movie is good or bad is a lot like determining w...
MATTHEW PRINCE There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently.
MELISSA JOAN HART It was more whether or not I was going to retire or not as opposed to playing for another team. I di...
BERNIE WILLIAMS Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists out...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN The idea of finding your soul mate, whether it's online or not, is what people want.
NEV SCHULMAN Believe it or not, I'm stronger than any belief, stereotype, profile, or idea you have of me. I'm dr...
CHARLES LEE What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
JACK DAVENPORT I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a goo...
XAVIER DOLAN It was cleaned twice a year, whether it needed it or not.
LORI GRIMES We do not know whether it was an opportunistic robbery, whether it was something that was planned or...
WILLIE WILLIAMS To me [the pope] was the incarnation of all that is capitalism.
MEHMET AGCA I suggested it was a bit mean not to invite Fidel Castro to the Palace because he's 80 as well and s...
JOHN HUMPHRYS I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, b...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ After that first day I questioned whether or not basketball was for me.
EMEKA OKAFOR Coming in, I didn't realize it, but I wasn't supposed to be as fast as I was. I was supposed to be a...
AMY HASTINGS It was almost immediate that we started to see Pope Benedict items and memorabilia come onto the sit...
HANI DURZY There was once this viral photo of the Pope doing his Pope-mobile parade, and everyone had their pho...
CHRISSY TEIGEN My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is...
BRENNAN MANNING Is it a good idea or not?? Were we build for that or not??
We know to much so let's remove us??
DEYTH BANGER Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to liv...
BEN AFFLECK I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making mone...
LAURA BELL BUNDY It took me longer to get to the airport than it did to fly here. It was amazing, though, that the pe...
CRAIG BARANOUSKI I was ready to leave with every load, with every worthy individual of respectable appearance hiring ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It's true, I came up with the idea for SUMMERLAND, but it was a total fluke. Nobody was more shocked...
LORI LOUGHLIN I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, w...
JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. It was conferred on me for my art, not for my being Jewish -- for my art and my service to this pope...
GILBERT LEVINE I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a lon...
BRUCE BERESFORD It was not the mother's call. The professionals around the room consulted together. It was our call....
JULIA DIXON Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.
PETER O'TOOLE How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???
What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided b...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Whether my house was open or not, the noise was just as bad. ... It was like someone constantly poun...
DAVID BLAIR It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL The death of one threatens the future of many.
NOBODY If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it.
KYLE CHANDLER Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteri...
MILAN KUNDERA Whether you give a crap or don't give a crap, nobody wants crap anyway!
ANONYMOUS if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Whether it's instinctive or whether or not it was just the way the wind was blowing, it seems that t...
JANE MACDONALD If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was prin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Nobody owns comedy. Nobody owns a premise. Nobody owns an idea.
TREVOR NOAH I would have made a good Pope.
RICHARD M. NIXON At any time he was a threat to go to the house whether it was a 6-yard slant or a 3-yard out. He was...
WARREN SAPP In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righte...
FREDERICK SCOTT OLIVER It took me a long while to realize that Rhysand, whether he knew it or not, had effectively kept me ...
SARAH J. MAAS It was remarked to me by the late Mr. Charles Roupell . . . that to play billiards well was a sign o...
HERBERT SPENCER The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
WILLA CATHER So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ag...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of maki...
VICTORIA AVEYARD Outside, the world had become a formless, swirling mist with no
shapes or shadows behind it, wh...
NEIL GAIMAN With this kind of injury you have to be patient and wait. What we weren't able to do was give him a ...
DR PETER GREGORY As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as ...
SUE MONK KIDD And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.
JOHN STEINBECK He's also one of those friends who doesn't impress easily. And so if you get a good reaction from hi...
DAN FUTTERMAN We felt like it was a decision our viewers had to make - whether it was appropriate or not - for the...
DAVID JERNIGAN He who must travel happily must travel light.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has do...
TIM RICE I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, ...
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If you look at the industry, the March and June quarters tend to be down in demand and aggressive in...
CHARLES POPE I believe technically, Earle was doing a good job.
CHARLES POPE 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.
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