Alexander Pope Quotes

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

Beauty fades, dumb is forever.

Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wiseguy' opposites?

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.

I think that at some point everybody turns into their mother or their father, it's just not normally from morning to afternoon.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise — we are already wise.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

I don't feel old. Okay, maybe I do when I get in a conversation with Earl Thomas, who was born in 1989.

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.

Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.