Edward Young Quotes

On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.

Edward Young

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

Edward Young

Friendship is the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure

Edward Young

'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.

Edward Young

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

Edward Young

A land of levity is a land of guilt.

Edward Young

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

Edward Young

On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.

Edward Young

On the soft bed of luxury, most kingdoms have expired.

Edward Young

Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

Edward Young

Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

Edward Young

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

The man who builds, and lacks where with to pay, provides a home from which to run away.

Edward Young

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; sands make the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles, life. Your care to trifles give, else you may die ere you have learned to live.

Edward Young

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

Edward Young