Edward Joseph Young Quotes

The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

Edward Joseph Young

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• Spider

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• I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Man
  • Kid
  • Spider

• My signature is like a squished spider.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Like
  • Signature
  • Spider

• I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Me
  • Speak
  • Bliss

• It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin "So not the point!" -Claire "Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin "You're insane." -Claire

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Hurt
  • Hunting
  • Creature

• I just went to work for a vampire, was scared by a spider, and got knocked down by a tanning bomb. And that’s just my day, not my week.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Work
  • Vampire
  • Bomb

• He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lie

• If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Ignorance
  • Bliss
  • Blisters

• Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

  

  John Milton
  • Bliss
  • Sober
  • Waking

• They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Bliss
  • Grudge
  • Groan

• Follow Your Bliss. Not someone else’s idea of your bliss. Not what you think should be your bliss. Not what you think would impress the crowd or appease the family. Your BLISS. What truly gets you giddy.

  

  Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC
  • Thinking
  • Bliss
  • Impress

• Probably the most cold-hearted thing I ever did. There was this spider in my shower - and I'm usually very kind to all of the creatures of the world - and you feel very vulnerable when you're naked, and I didn't really want to be near this spider he was kinda big and gnarly looking. The only thing that I could reach in the shower was this hairspray. So I hairspray-ed this spider to death, which was awful. I felt like such a jerk. It was really, really harsh.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Death
  • Creatures
  • Naked

• A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Heart
  • Kiss
  • Bliss

• Life isn't about the cherished moments it is also about the hard ones. Just knowing each day that you will arise with the bright shining sun in your eyes. And end with the cool breeze upon your face as you slowly reflect the day that passed by.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Moments
  • Eye
  • Shining

• When we feel happy and peaceful, our happiness and peace radiates around us, and others can enjoy it as well. This is called 'the enjoyment of others of our body of bliss'.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Happiness
  • Enjoy
  • Bliss

• If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Ignorance
  • Bliss
  • Happy People

• There were cool bug spider monsters and fire and blood and guts - what's not to like?

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • Fire
  • Blood
  • Monsters

• Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.

  

  Christine de Pizan
  • Knowledge
  • Evil
  • Ignorance

• What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Education
  • Manners
  • Beings

• Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

  

  William Goldman
  • Romantics
  • Cynics

• Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a statutory but as a moral religion, and as thus entering into the closest relation with reason so that, through reason, it was able of itself, without historical learning, to be spread at all times and among all peoples with the greatest trustworthiness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Teacher
  • Advantage
  • Christianity

• Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For, fortunately, the matter stands so that the duty of making the best of one's self individually is not a separate thing from the duty of filling one's place in society, but the two are one, and the latter is accomplished when the former is done

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Men
  • Done
  • Care

• The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

  

  Erle Stanley Gardner
  • Reason
  • Faces
  • Eternity

• To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.

  

  Stephen Levine
  • Fear
  • Heal
  • Touch

• The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Bliss
  • Breeze
  • Spider