Anne Bradstreet Quotes

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. - Anne Bradstreet

Thou ill-form,d offspring of my feeble brain . . . - Anne Bradstreet

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. - Anne Bradstreet

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are. - Anne Bradstreet

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. - Anne Bradstreet

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

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. - Anne Bradstreet

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. . . . - Anne Bradstreet

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. - Anne Bradstreet

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