Edward Young Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• 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.

  Edward Young

  Age, Action, Life Is

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.489

• The person of wisdom is the person of years.

  Edward Young

  Years, Age, Persons

• Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.

  Edward Young

  Ocean, Thoughtful, Silence

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.82

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

  Edward Young

  Wish, Shadow, Age

  Edward Young (1806). “Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]”, p.101

• In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

  Edward Young

  Disappointment, Age, Youth

  Edward Young (1747). “A vindication of providence: or, A true estimate of human life, discourse i”, p.19

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

  Edward Young

  Birthday, Wise, Fortune Cookie

  The Love of Fame Satire 2, l. 282 (1725 - 1728)

• When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees

  Edward Young

  Fall, Autumn, Men

  Edward Young, Dr. Doran (John) (1854). “Imperium Pelagi, a naval lyric. Epistles to Mr. Pope, concerning the authors of the age. Sea-piece. The foreign address; or the best argument for peace. Epitaph on Lord Aubrey Beauclerk. Reflections on the public situation of the kingdom. An epistle to the right hon. Sir Robert Walpole. The old man's relapse. Resignation. Tragedies. Prose works”, p.263

• In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

  Edward Young

  Age, Life Is, Esteem

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