Alexander Pope Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• See how the World its Veterans rewards!
  A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards;
  Fair to no purpose, artful to no end,
  Young without Lovers, old without a Friend;
  A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot;
  Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Passion, Age

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.223

• A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

  Alexander Pope

  Age, Cards, Youth

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To a Lady' (1735) l. 241

• Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

  Alexander Pope

  Summer, Wise, War

  Alexander Pope (1830). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope (including His Translation of Homer). To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, by Dr. Johnson”, p.233

• Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
  You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill:
  Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age
  Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Play, Age

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Colley Cibber (1804). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with his last corrections, additions and improvements”, p.105

• But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Long, Age

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.316

• Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Prayer, Children

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.397

• Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

  Alexander Pope

  Time, Men, Thinking

• Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

  Alexander Pope

  Age, Sickness, States

  Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.73

• Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

  Alexander Pope

  Age, Want, Gates

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.31

• Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day,
  Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away;
  . . . .
  To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint,
  Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

  Alexander Pope

  Night, Dancing, Age

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.373

• Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

  Alexander Pope

  Years, Funeral, Age

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.168

• A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

  Alexander Pope

  Age, Fool, Patriot

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.336

• Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit,
  There is no cure 'gainst age but it

  Alexander Pope

  Heart, Wine, Age

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