Quotes by : Anne Bradstreet

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge fitter to bruise than to polish.

That when we live no more, We may live ever

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

The Author To Her BookThou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,Who after birth did'st by my side....

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;Their sumptuous monuments,....

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

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,....

Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is’t gone? Nay Masculines,....

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

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn....