Joseph Addison Quotes

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
Joseph Addison

Writing, Works, Kinds

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
Joseph Addison

Justice, Cannot, Violence

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
Joseph Addison

Themselves, Lust, Call

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph Addison

Wedding, Woman, Before

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Joseph Addison

Sympathy, Give, Despair

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Joseph Addison

Life, Good, Living

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Joseph Addison

Person, Rather, Talking

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Joseph Addison

Die, Honor, Ten

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison

Give, Value, Full

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison

Happiness, Enemy, Less

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison

Mind, Body, Reading

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
Joseph Addison

Humble, Wish, Become

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Joseph Addison

Others, Seen, Prosperity

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Joseph Addison

Life, Happy, Important

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison

Passion, Growing, Object

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Joseph Addison

Virtue, Modesty, Guard

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Joseph Addison

Life, Good, Great

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
Joseph Addison

Nothing, Friend, Thinking

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison

Men, Wisdom, Few

Jesters do often prove prophets.
Joseph Addison

Often, Prove, Prophets

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph Addison

Change, Nature, Men

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Joseph Addison

Nature, Greatest, Human

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison

Age, Nature, Sun

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
Joseph Addison

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
Joseph Addison

Nature, Lady, Variable

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 1, 1672

Died: June 17, 1719

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