Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Quote by Alexander Pope

Topics: Fidelity Quotes, Loyalty Quotes

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe...

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe...

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not...

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not...

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every...

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every...

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

A little learning is a dangerous thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

A little learning is a dangerous thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no...

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no...

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes

Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But as the world, harmoniously confused, Where order in...

Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But as the world, harmoniously confused, Where order in...

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements...

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements...

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have...

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have...

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one...

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one...

Order is heaven's first law.

Order is heaven's first law.