Quotes By Edward Young

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

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.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Wishing of all employments is the worst.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

A Christian is the highest style of man.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

The man that makes a character, makes foes.

A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

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.

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

By all means use some time to be alone.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.