Quote

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

Edward Young

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Well
Fairs
Looks
Fair
Plump
Every
Smile
Vein
Men
Lived
Venom
Knew
Foam
Upon
Veins
Look
Feds
Wells
Hypocrisy

More quotes by Edward Young

Image
Nature delights in progress in advance.
Edward Young
Image
Youth is not rich in time it may be poor Part with it as with money, sparing pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds they can tell.
Edward Young
Image
Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
Edward Young
Image
It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
Edward Young
Image
A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
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
What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
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
A dedication is a wooden leg.
Edward Young
Image
Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
Edward Young
Image
Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
Edward Young
Image
The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death he walks with nature and her paths are peace.
Edward Young
Image
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Edward Young
Image
Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
Edward Young
Image
Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
Edward Young
Image
Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
Edward Young
Image
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
Edward Young
Image
Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
Edward Young
Image
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.
Edward Young
Image
Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
Edward Young