And Wine Can Of Their Wits The Wise Beguile, Make The Sage Frolic, And The Serious Smile.

Far from gay cities and the ways of men.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xiv, Line 410...
The sex is ever to a soldier kind.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xiv, Line 246...
It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xiv, Line 65...
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xiii, Line 375...
For never, never, wicked man was wise.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book ii, Line 320...
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book iv, Line 372...
Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book viii, Line 192...
Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book ii, Line 207...
To hide their ignominious heads in Troy.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xiv, Line 170...