All Joseph Addison Quotes
- I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. All
- Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. Admiration
- Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of… Book
- Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his… Blast
- An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. Absurdity
- Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. Better
- That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? Confess
- Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. Affronts
- If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow… Act
- Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. Awkward
- Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. All
- Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. Capable
- A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. Advice
- I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. Animal
- Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. Guard
- To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. Abilities
- 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. Amount
- 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… Already Corrupt
- Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. Contracted
- Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. Greatest
- There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Dress
- To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. Authority
- Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of… Break
- 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… Animal
- Jesters do often prove prophets. Inspirational