Quote

Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

Alexander Pope

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
Literary Historian
Poet
Translator
the City
Pope the Poet
Alexander I Pope
Alexander
I Pope
Sky
Dreams
Wise
Dream
Fables
Aviation
Flight

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
Alexander Pope
Image
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
Alexander Pope
Image
A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
Alexander Pope
Image
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.
Alexander Pope
Image
Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
Alexander Pope
Image
If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
Alexander Pope
Image
A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
Alexander Pope
Image
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Alexander Pope
Image
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
Alexander Pope
Image
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander Pope
Image
The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
Alexander Pope
Image
Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
Alexander Pope
Image
When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
Alexander Pope
Image
Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
Alexander Pope
Image
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Alexander Pope
Image
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Alexander Pope
Image
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
Alexander Pope
Image
A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
Alexander Pope
Image
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Alexander Pope
Image
With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
Alexander Pope