Joseph Addison
37 quotations
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.
Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
The post of honor is a private station.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.