Alexander Pope Quotes About Laughter

Quotes about: Laughter

• The laughers are a majority.

  Alexander Pope

  Laughter, Majority

• Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Laughter, Eye

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 13

• Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

  'Ode on Solitude' (written c.1700, when aged about twelve)

• Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Laughter, Truth

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others, to which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”

• Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

  Alexander Pope

  Laughter, Ambition, Son

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1757). “The Works of Alexander Pope Esq”, p.134

• The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

  Alexander Pope

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  Alexander Pope (2008). “An Essay on Man: Moral Essays and Satires: Easyread Large Edition”, p.160, ReadHowYouWant.com

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