padlock quotes

Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

-Pope, Alexander
  The Dunciad, bk.4, l.161^2.

Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind; Let all her ways be unconfined; And clap your padlocköon her mind.

-Prior, Matthew
  'An English Padlock'.

2 Quotes found. Displaying quotes 1 through 2

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2005 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.