Edward Young Quotes

"The purpose firm is equal to the deed."
- Edward Young
(Related: Purpose, Deed)

"The man that makes a character, makes foes."
- Edward Young
(Related: Character, Man)

"The man that blushes is not quite a brute."
- Edward Young
(Related: Blushes, Man)

"The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety."
- Edward Young
(Related: Trust, Miracles, Safety, Sea)

"The house of laughter makes a house of woe."
- Edward Young
(Related: Laughter)

"The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss."
- Edward Young
(Related: Wisdom, Remedies)

"The course of Nature is the art of God."
- Edward Young
(Related: Art, Nature, God)

"Too low they build who build below the skies."
- Edward Young

"Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more."
- Edward Young

"The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done."
- Edward Young
(Related: Dream, Future)

"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired."
- Edward Young
(Related: Poetry, Logic, Mystery, Prose)

"They only babble who practise not reflection."
- Edward Young
(Related: Reflection)

"Those who build beneath the stars build too low."
- Edward Young
(Related: Stars)

"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform."
- Edward Young
(Related: Work, Day, Fools, Reform, Tomorrow)

"Truth never was indebted to a lie."
- Edward Young
(Related: Truth, Lie)

"Virtue alone has majesty in death."
- Edward Young
(Related: Death, Virtue)

"Wise it is to comprehend the whole."
- Edward Young

"Wishing of all employments is the worst."
- Edward Young
(Related: Wishing)

"Wonder is involuntary praise."
- Edward Young
(Related: Praise, Wonder)

"Less base the fear of death than fear of life."
- Edward Young
(Related: Death, Life, Fear)

"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote."
- Edward Young
(Related: Learning)

"Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness."
- Edward Young
(Related: Satire, Today, Tomorrow, Weakness)

"All men think all men mortal, but themselves."
- Edward Young
(Related: Men)

"Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise."
- Edward Young

"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."
- Edward Young
(Related: Men, Fools, May)

"A friend is worth all hazards we can run."
- Edward Young
(Related: Friend, Worth)

"A God all mercy is a God unjust."
- Edward Young
(Related: God, Mercy)

"A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs."
- Edward Young
(Related: Soul, Reflection, Ruin)

"All men think that all men are mortal but themselves."
- Edward Young
(Related: Men)

"An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there."
- Edward Young
(Related: Angels, Grave)

"Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed."
- Edward Young
(Related: Fool)

"By all means use some time to be alone."
- Edward Young
(Related: Time)

"By night an atheist half believes in a God."
- Edward Young
(Related: God, Night)

"One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame."
- Edward Young
(Related: Art, Fame, Law, Murder, Name)

"Procrastination is the thief of time."
- Edward Young
(Related: Time, Procrastination)

"A man of pleasure is a man of pains."
- Edward Young
(Related: Man, Pleasure)

"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth."
- Edward Young
(Related: Nature, Truth, Friend)

"Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure."
- Edward Young
(Related: Friendship, Wine)

"Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire."
- Edward Young
(Related: Death, Fire, Nothing, Waste)

"None think the great unhappy, but the great."
- Edward Young

"Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy."
- Edward Young
(Related: Wealth, Learning)

"A Christian is the highest style of man."
- Edward Young
(Related: Christian, Man, Style)

"Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority."
- Edward Young
(Related: Death, Life, Majority, Solitude)

"How blessings brighten as they take their flight."
- Edward Young
(Related: Blessings)