Retiring Quotes by Edmund Waller

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

— Edmund Waller

Could we forbear dispute, and practice love, We should agree as angels do above. Where love presides, not vice alone does find, No entrance…

— Edmund Waller

Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.

— Edmund Waller

Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.

— Edmund Waller

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

— Edmund Waller

The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who…

— Edmund Waller

All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more.

— Edmund Waller

To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light.

— Edmund Waller

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

— Edmund Waller

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your…

— Edmund Waller

Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do.

— Edmund Waller

For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to thy Voice.

— Edmund Waller