Top 30 Anne Bradstreet Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Anne Bradstreet

2. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.”

— Anne Bradstreet

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

— Anne Bradstreet

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

— Anne Bradstreet

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

— Anne Bradstreet

6. “If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.”

— Anne Bradstreet

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

— Anne Bradstreet

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

— Anne Bradstreet

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9. “That when we live no more, We may live ever.”

— Anne Bradstreet

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

— Anne Bradstreet

11. “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 desires.”

— Anne Bradstreet

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

— Anne Bradstreet

13. “Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.”

— Anne Bradstreet

14. “I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.”

— Anne Bradstreet

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

— Anne Bradstreet

16. “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

17. “My hope and treasure lies above.”

— Anne Bradstreet

18. “The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.”

— Anne Bradstreet

19. “Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!”

— Anne Bradstreet

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

— Anne Bradstreet

21. “Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge – fitter to bruise than polish.”

— Anne Bradstreet

22. “It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts.”

— Anne Bradstreet

23. “I happy am, if well with you.”

— Anne Bradstreet

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

— Anne Bradstreet

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

— Anne Bradstreet

26. “And time brings down what is both strong and tall.”

— Anne Bradstreet

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

— Anne Bradstreet

28. “He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.”

— Anne Bradstreet

29. “Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.”

— Anne Bradstreet

30. “My love is such that rivers cannot quench.”

— Anne Bradstreet

31. “But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he’s laid.”

— Anne Bradstreet