Alexander Pope Quotes

The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the least extraordinary. I was fit to own the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it. I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it.

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.

To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know

The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

Everything that I make I use.

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.