Top 30 Edward Young Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Edward Young Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
Edward Young
An angel’s arm can’t snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can’t confine me there.
Edward Young
Wishing of all employments is the worst.
Edward Young
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Edward Young
All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
Edward Young
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordlings enjoy.
Edward Young
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
Edward Young
All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
Edward Young
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
Edward Young
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young
A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
Edward Young
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
Edward Young
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Edward Young
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
Edward Young
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Edward Young
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Edward Young
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.
Edward Young
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
Edward Young
The course of Nature is the art of God.
Edward Young
By night an atheist half believes in a God.
Edward Young
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
Edward Young
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Edward Young
Wonder is involuntary praise.
Edward Young
The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
Edward Young
By all means use some time to be alone.
Edward Young
A Christian is the highest style of man.
Edward Young
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
Edward Young
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
Edward Young
How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
Edward Young