Men Quotes by Edward Young

Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.

— Edward Young

Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!

— Edward Young

Affliction is a good man's shining time.

— Edward Young

The soft whispers of the God in man.

— Edward Young

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

— Edward Young

Man wants little, nor that little long.

— Edward Young

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

— Edward Young

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

— Edward Young

A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.

— Edward Young

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

— Edward Young

Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.

— Edward Young

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

— Edward Young

Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!

— Edward Young

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for…

— Edward Young

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

— Edward Young

Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

— Edward Young

There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because…

— Edward Young

The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise…

— Edward Young

This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man?…

— Edward Young

Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.…

— Edward Young

The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and…

— Edward Young

Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment…

— Edward Young

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from…

— Edward Young

And all may do what has by man been done.

— Edward Young

The soul of man was made to walk the skies.

— Edward Young

Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

— Edward Young

'T is impious in a good man to be sad.

— Edward Young

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

— Edward Young

As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

— Edward Young

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

— Edward Young

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

— Edward Young

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

— Edward Young

When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.

— Edward Young

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

— Edward Young

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

— Edward Young

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

— Edward Young

The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge…

— Edward Young

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

— Edward Young

Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."

— Edward Young

Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.

— Edward Young