My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require alternation.

Quote by Alexander Pope

Topics: Change Quotes, Life Quotes, Nature Quotes

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but...

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but...

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making...

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making...

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in...

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in...

Charms strike the sight; but merit wins the soul.

Charms strike the sight; but merit wins the soul.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins...

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins...

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or...

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or...

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jury-men may dine

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jury-men may dine

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer...

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer...

True, conscious honour is to feel no sin; he's armed without that's innocent within.

True, conscious honour is to feel no sin; he's armed without that's innocent within.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or...

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or...

You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast

Hope springs eternal in the human breast

I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.

I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.

I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that...

I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that...