Alexander Pope Quotes About Money

Quotes about: Money

• A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Money, Drinking

• We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

  Alexander Pope

  Money, People, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.236

• False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Time, Money

• These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

  Alexander Pope

  Money, Riches, Enjoy

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.1155, Delphi Classics

• Trade it may help, society extend,
  But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend:
  It raises armies in a nation's aid,
  But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Money, Army, Land

• Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

  Alexander Pope

  Money, Mean, Grace

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 1, Epistle 1 (1738) l. 103

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