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Edward Young
115 quotes
“In records that defy the tooth of time.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up—and we are gone.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) first seen 1719 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Busiris (1719), Act V, sc. i.
“Great let me call him, for he conquered me.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) first seen 1721 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Revenge (1721), Act I, sc. i.
“Life is the desert, life the solitude; Death joins us to the great majority.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) first seen 1728 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Vindication of Providence; or, A True Estimate of Human Life (1728).
“The man that makes a character makes foes.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) first seen 1730 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Mr. Pope, epistle I, l. 28 (1730).
“Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As Love alone can exquisitely bless, Love only feels the marvellous of pain; Opens new veins of torture in the soul, And wakes the nerve where agonies are born.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) first seen 1753 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Brothers (1753), Act V, scene i.
“Too low they build who build beneath the stars.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 206.
“He weeps! the falling drop puts out the sun; He sighs! the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes. If in His love so terrible, what then His wrath inflamed?”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 271.
“Accept a miracle instead of wit,— See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines written with the Diamond Pencil of Lord Chesterfield; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Time elaborately thrown away.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Last Day, book i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“There buds the promise of celestial worth.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Last Day, book iii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“And friend received with thumps upon the back.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Universal Passion; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“None think the great unhappy but the great.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven’s blessing thinks himself undone.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where Nature’s end of language is declin’d, And men talk only to conceal the mind.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And waste their music on the savage race.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue, Forever most divinely in the wrong.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a strategem.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Creation sleeps! 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On reason build resolve, that column of true majesty in man.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; Legions of angels can't confine me there.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To waft a feather or to drown a fly.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Procrastination is the thief of time.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: English proverb (english)
“At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All men think all men mortal but themselves.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've lost a day!"—the prince who nobly cried, Had been an emperor without his crown.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source