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Get wealth and power, if possible by grace, If not, by any means, get wealth and place. - Alexander Pope Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. - Alexander Pope Or will you think, my friend, your bus'ness done When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one. - Alexander Pope Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. - Alexander Pope 'Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another. - Alexander Pope Virtue alone is happiness below. - Alexander Pope What mighty contests rise from trivial things. - Alexander Pope Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. - Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (part III, line 66) One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit. - Alexander Pope, Essay of Criticism (pt. I, l. 60) To err is human, to forgive, divine. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 266) Men would be angels, angels would be gods. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 126) Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 95) Chaos of thought and passion all confused. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 13) Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times. - Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (ep. I, pt. II) Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend. - Alexander Pope, Prologue to Satires (l. 201) So obliging that he ne'er obliged. - Alexander Pope, Prologue to Satires (l. 207) No creature smarts so little as a fool. - Alexander Pope, Prologue to Satires (l. 84) One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. - Bishop Beilby Porteus He that fights and runs away, Will live to fight another day; For he that runs may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. Deeper to wound she shuns the fight; She drops her arms, to gain the field: Secures her conquest by her flight: And triumphs when she seems to yield. - Matthew Prior Love and life are for to-day. - Matthew Prior Love, well thou know'st no partnership allows, Cupid averse rejects divided vows. - Matthew Prior Such as she is, who died to-day, Such thou alas! mayst be to-morrow. - Matthew Prior To John I owed great obligation: But John unhandsomely thought fit To publish it to all the nation; Sure John and I are more than quit. - Matthew Prior Of two evils I have chose the least. - Matthew Prior, Imitation of Horace (bk. I, ep. IX) Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink; So may he cease to write, and learn to think. - Matthew Prior, To a Person who Wrote Ill--On Same Person Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you. - Sextus Aurelius Propertius He will not carry his wealth to the waters of Acheron. - Sextus Aurelius Propertius Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.] - Sextus Aurelius Propertius To each man at his birth nature has given some fault. - Sextus Aurelius Propertius A bad agreement is better than a good lawsuit. - Proverb, (Italian) A bad beginning may make a good ending. - Proverb, (German) A bad bush is better than an open field. - Proverb A bad cause requires many words. - Proverb, (German) A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit. - Proverb, (French) A bad compromise is better than a successful suit. - Proverb, (Spanish) A bad day never hath a good night. - Proverb A bad excuse is better than none. - Proverb A bad father has never a good son. - Proverb, (Latin) A bad hair cut is two people's shame. - Proverb, (Danish) A bad horse eats as much as a good one. - Proverb, (Danish) A bad knife cuts one's finger instead of the stick. - Proverb, (Portuguese) A bad labour, and a daughter after all. - Proverb, (Spanish) A bad man's gift is like his master. - Proverb, (Spanish) A bad mother wishes for good children. - Proverb A bad penny always comes back. - Proverb, (German) A bad penny always turns up. - Proverb A bad reaper never gets a good sickle. - Proverb, (Gaelic) A bad thing never dies. - Proverb, (Spanish) A bad tree does not yield good apples. - Proverb, (Danish) Displaying page 53 of 414 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 [53] 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414
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