Quote #14
They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge.
More from Edward Young
- Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
- None think the great unhappy but the great.
- Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
- The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
- The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
- Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
- When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite.
- Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.