Anne Bradstreet Quotes

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

I happy am, if well with you.

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.

That when we live no more, We may live ever

If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.

Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.

My hope and treasure lies above

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can I prize thy love more than whole mines of Gold. Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold repay, Then while we live, in love let's so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever.

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.