Edward Young Quotes

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;
In all the magnanimity of thought
Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same.

Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:
Who does the best his circumstance allows
Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.

Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.

Man wants little, nor that little long.

Friendship is the wine of life.

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.

None think the great unhappy but the great.

Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.

Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;
And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;
Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.

Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour.

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave,
The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Where Nature’s end of language is declin’d,
And men talk only to conceal the mind.