[ joseph addison Quotes ]
37 Quotations
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'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
[ Merit ]
Joseph Addison
30 votes
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
[ Contentment ]
Joseph Addison
29 votes
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
[ Marriage ]
Joseph Addison
32 votes
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
[ Argument ]
Joseph Addison
22 votes
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
[ Cheerfulness ]
Joseph Addison
30 votes
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
Joseph Addison
28 votes
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
[ Lies and Lying ]
Joseph Addison
27 votes
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
[ Despair ]
Joseph Addison
25 votes
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
[ Knowledge ]
Joseph Addison
31 votes
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
[ Confidence ]
Joseph Addison
28 votes
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
[ Music ]
Joseph Addison
30 votes
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
[ Inconsistency ]
Joseph Addison
28 votes
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
[ Music ]
Joseph Addison
29 votes
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
[ Laughter ]
Joseph Addison
29 votes
Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
[ Faults ]
Joseph Addison
30 votes
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
[ Editing and Editors ]
Joseph Addison
25 votes
See in what peace a Christian can die.
[ Death and Dying ]
Joseph Addison
23 votes
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
[ Virtue ]
Joseph Addison
28 votes
The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
[ Jealousy ]
Joseph Addison
30 votes
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
Joseph Addison
29 votes
The post of honor is a private station.
[ Honor ]
Joseph Addison
14 votes
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
Joseph Addison
27 votes
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
[ Stardom ]
Joseph Addison
28 votes
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
[ Dress ]
Joseph Addison
30 votes
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
[ Beauty ]
Joseph Addison
28 votes
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
[ Solitude ]
Joseph Addison
30 votes
We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
[ Seriousness ]
Joseph Addison
29 votes
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
[ Patriotism ]
Joseph Addison
29 votes
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.
[ Education ]
Joseph Addison
29 votes
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
[ Benefactors ]
Joseph Addison
28 votes
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
[ Injury ]
Joseph Addison
24 votes
Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
[ Insults ]
Joseph Addison
27 votes
