Famous Quotes

Quotes by Edward Young

• By all means use some time to be alone.
• Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
• Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
• Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
• Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
• Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
• 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.
• Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
• Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
• The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
• The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
• The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
• The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss.
• There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
• Virtue alone has majesty in death.