Alexander Pope Quotes About Old Age

Quotes about: Old 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

• 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

• 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

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