The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Alexander Pope
Some Similar Quotes
  1. The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. - Unknown

  2. When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side. - Nora Ephron

  3. When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing! - Anthony T. Hincks

  4. Don't be afraid to be afraid. Have fear, and then conquer the shit out of it. - D. Antoinette Foy

  5. There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry. - D. Antoinette Foy

More Quotes By Alexander Pope
  1. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

  2. Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

  3. A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

  4. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

  5. Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

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