A Quote by Edward Young

We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.

Edward Young

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Believe Know Marvellous Nothing

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Edward Young
English - Poet
July 3, 1683 - April 5, 1765

It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour - but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.

Albert Einstein

One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.

Ian Hacking

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

Marya Mannes

Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous.

Boy George

Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.

Arthur Hugh Clough

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive.

Charles Stuart Calverley

I know how terrifying L.A. can be, because I've been there as a failure. After 'Drive,' it was the most marvellous place in the universe.

Nicolas Winding Refn

Some comedians make a marvellous living doing material that is completely predictable, that reminds people of things that they already know or jokes that they are already familiar with.

Richard Herring

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.