Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Authors:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the authors)
(Click a letter to view the authors)
Letter "E" » Edward Young Quotes
«By all means use some time to be alone.»
«Wonder is involuntary praise»
«Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene»
Author: Edward Young
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
| About:
Procrastination
| Keywords:
concerns, fled, mercies, scene, steals, thief, Thief of Time
«Procrastination is the thief of time.»
Author: Edward Young
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
| About:
Procrastination
| Keywords:
thief, Thief of Time
«Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.»
«How blessings brighten as they take their flight.»
Author: Edward Young
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
| Keywords:
brighten, brightened, brightening, brightens, flight
«In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.»
Author: Edward Young
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
| Keywords:
harvest, infirmities, of age, parish, reaps, reflects, register, registered, registering, registers, sown, The Register, The Wages of, wages
«The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.»
«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.»
«Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.»
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
