Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
