Alexander Pope Sober Quotations

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.