Quote

Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Edward Young

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Forty
Aging
Speed
Indeed
Fool
Wise
Age
Birthday

More quotes by Edward Young

Image
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
Edward Young
Image
Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
Edward Young
Image
Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
Edward Young
Image
When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
Edward Young
Image
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
Edward Young
Image
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
Image
Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
Edward Young
Image
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Edward Young
Image
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
Edward Young
Image
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
Image
Friendship's the wine of life.
Edward Young
Image
By all means use some time to be alone.
Edward Young
Image
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
Edward Young
Image
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
Edward Young
Image
Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
Edward Young
Image
A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
Edward Young
Image
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Edward Young
Image
Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
Edward Young
Image
Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
Edward Young
Image
The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
Edward Young