“Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.”
Actually Night I, line 390 of Edward Young's Night Thoughts.
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William Wordsworth306
English Romantic poet 1770–1850Related quotes
“Grief and mad wrath devoured his soul, and hope, heaviest of mortal cares when long deferred.”
Exedere animum dolor iraque demens
et, qua non gravior mortalibus addita curis,
spes, ubi longa venit.
Source: Thebaid, Book II, Line 319
“The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.”
Fernando de Rojas La Celestina
Act II.
La Celestina (1499)
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (1967)
“Tis a mad world (my masters) and in sadnes / I travail'd madly in these dayes of madnes.”
John Taylor (1578–1653) English poet of the 16th and 17th centuries
“Now such an one for daughter Creon had
As maketh wise men fools and young men mad.”
William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman
Life and Death of Jason, Book xvii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Tis come, our fated day of death.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 53
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
La superstition est à la religion ce que l’astrologie est à l’astronomie, la fille très folle d’une mère très sage. Ces deux filles ont longtemps subjugué toute la terre.
"Whether it is useful to maintain the people in superstition," Treatise on Toleration (1763)
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