Anne Bradstreet Quotes

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

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

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

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

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, their pomps all laid in th' dustNor wit nor gold, nor buildings scape time's rust;But he whose name is graved in the white stoneShall last and shine when all of these are gone.

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

That when we live no more, We may live ever