Alexander Pope Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• 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

• Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

  Alexander Pope

  Death, Youth, Dies

  Homer, Alexander Pope, Gilbert Wakefield (1796). “The Iliad of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition, with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield, B.A. ...”, p.12

• 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 “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.397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

• Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

  Alexander Pope

  Birthday, Long, Heaven

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.419

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