Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Old men love novelties the last arriv'd Still pleases best the youngest steals their smiles.
Edward Young
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Still
Pleases
Best
Smiles
Men
Novelty
Love
Stealing
Please
Lasts
Novelties
Last
Steals
Stills
Youngest
More quotes by Edward Young
The purpose firm is equal to the deed
Edward Young
Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young
One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
Edward Young
A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
Edward Young
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
Edward Young
Praise, more divine than prayer prayer points our ready path to heaven praise is already there.
Edward Young
What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
Edward Young
Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
Edward Young
Pity swells the tide of love.
Edward Young
And friend received with thumps upon the back.
Edward Young
The spirit walks of every day deceased.
Edward Young
Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
Edward Young
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
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Edward Young
Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
Edward Young
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
Edward Young
Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
Edward Young
Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
Edward Young
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
Edward Young
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Edward Young
