Edward Young Quotes

Friendship is the wine of life.

— Edward Young

“A foe to God was never true friend to man”

— Edward Young

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

— Edward Young

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

— Edward Young

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

— Edward Young

“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

“Truth never was indebted to a lie.”

— Edward Young

“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”

— Edward Young

Wishing of all employments is the worst.

— Edward Young

“Too low they build who build below the skies.”

— Edward Young

“Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.”

— Edward Young

The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

— Edward Young

“Man maketh a death which Nature never made.”

— Edward Young

“The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.”

— Edward Young

“There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.”

— Edward Young

“Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.”

— Edward Young

“Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.”

— Edward Young

“A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.”

— Edward Young

The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.

— Edward Young

“An undevout astronomer is mad.”

— Edward Young

“A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.”

— Edward Young

“Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.”

— Edward Young

“Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.”

— Edward Young

“Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.”

— Edward Young

“How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! ... Midway from nothing to the Deity!”

— Edward Young

“A land of levity is a land of guilt.”

— Edward Young

“We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry”

— Edward Young

“In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom ... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.”

— Edward Young

“Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.”

— Edward Young

Pity swells the tide of love.

— Edward Young

“Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.”

— Edward Young

“Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!”

— Edward Young

“Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.”

— Edward Young

“A death-bed's a detector of the heart.”

— Edward Young

“The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.”

— Edward Young

“Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.”

— Edward Young

“Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.”

— Edward Young

“A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires.”

— Edward Young

A God alone can comprehend a God.

— Edward Young

“Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.”

— Edward Young

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.

— Edward Young

“Time elaborately thrown away.”

— Edward Young

Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.

— Edward Young

“Unlearned men of books assume the care,
As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.”

— Edward Young

Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.

— Edward Young

“Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.”

— Edward Young

“What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?”

— Edward Young

“Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.”

— Edward Young

“What ardently we wish, we soon believe.”

— Edward Young

“Nothing but what astonishes is true.”

— Edward Young