Edward Joseph Young Quotes

Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.

Edward Joseph Young

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• I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Choices

• In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Time
  • History
  • Worst

• I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Happy
  • Career
  • End

• The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Opportunity
  • Defeat
  • Often

• I think it was a gift. I was very disappointed in my skate.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Gift
  • Disappointed
  • Skate

• Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Successful
  • Speech
  • Develop

• The next world war will be fought with stones.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • War
  • Next

• Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Respect
  • Sacrifice
  • Measure

• Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of years—yet that’s not much— She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others’ uses. Yet ’tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base. ’Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Black
  • Destiny
  • Curse

• If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Lost
  • Wander
  • Don't Know

• If you get on a TV show that's successful, odds are that you're playing the same character for as many years as the show is running, which can be its own blessing, but it can also be a curse because you're playing the same thing and that can be tiresome.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Character
  • Running
  • Successful

• Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Curse
  • Wander
  • Tyrant