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Letter "A" » Alexander Pope Quotes
«For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.»
«Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.»
«Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.»
«Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.»
«Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.»
«Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
«But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
«Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
«With loads of learned lumber in his head.»
«The wasting moth ne'er spoiled my best array; the cause was this, I wore it every day»
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