Quotes by Anne Bradstreet

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."]”

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”

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

“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 wo...”

“The Author To Her BookThou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,Who after birth did'st by my side remain,Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true,Who thee abroad exposed to publi...”

“Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen ist gone? Nay Masculines, you have thus taxd us long, But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong. Let such as ...”

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

“...And although thus short, we shorten many ways,Living so little while we are alive;In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delightSo unawares comes on perpetual night,And puts all pleasures vain unto...”

“That when we live no more, We may live ever”

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

“If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.”

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

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

“O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not,Their names without a record are forgot,Their parts, their ports, thei...”

“If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity prosperity would not be so welcome.”

“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 wi...”

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

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

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

“If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity prosperity would not be so welcome.”