Anne Bradstreet Quotes

Compare with me, ye women, if you can

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

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

What to my Saviour shall I giveWho freely hath done this for me?I'll serve him here whilst I shall liveAnd Loue him to Eternity

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.

Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.

Let such as say our sex is void of reason,
Know it is slander now but once was treason.

I happy am, if well with you.

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.

My love is such that rivers cannot quench

My hope and treasure lies above

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

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

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.

The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.

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

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things,

Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.