Edward Young quotes and words of wisdom

"Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness."
Found in the topic Satire.

"Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote."
Found in the topic Quotations.

"Virtue alone out builds the pyramids: Her monuments shall last, when Egypt"s fall."
Found in the topic Monument.

"They build too low who build beneath the skies."
Found in the topic Ambition.

"By night an atheist half believes a God."
Found in the topic Night.

"A God all mercy, is a God unjust."
Found in the topic Mercy.

"Gold glitters most where virtue shines no more, As stars from absent suns have leave to shine."
Found in the topic Gold.

"A man of pleasure is a man of pains."
Found in the topic Pleasure.

"Learning makes a man fit company for himself."
Found in the topic Company.

"Procrastination is the thief of time"
Found in the topic Procrastination.

"The purpose firm is equal to the deed."
Found in the topic Firm.

"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."
Found in the topic Live.

"They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge."
Found in the topic Ancestors.

"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."
Found in the topic Advice.

"The course of Nature is the art of God."
Found in the topic Art.

"Where boasting ends, there dignity begins."
Found in the topic Dignity.

"The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss."
Found in the topic Strike.

"The man that blushes is not quite a brute."
Found in the topic Blushing.

"Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion."
Found in the topic Humor.

Interesting Quotes

The good man is the friend of all living things.Mahatma Gandhi - Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.Franklin P Jones