All Joseph Addison Quotes
- Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue… Alive
- We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull. Dull
- Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes. Antidote
- Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity. Artificial
- Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy.… All
- A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of… All
- If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. Bosom
- Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. Abates
- If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. All
- Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. Knowledge
- In life we don't know how many Love's the Lord will send us, but we do know that one day he will send the right… Day
- If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in… Agree
- Nature uses extraordinarily ingenious techniques to avoid conflict and competition, and that cooperation is extraordinarily widespread throughout all of nature All
- It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances. Any
- When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost. Admission
- Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept… Admiration
- To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny All
- Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity Cheerfulness
- Through all eternity to thee, a joyful song I'll raise; for oh! Eternity's too short to utter all thy praise. All
- Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false Amiable
- What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. Block
- Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity Congruity
- Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. All
- When an old Woman begins to doat [sic], and grow chargeable to a Parish, she is generally turned into a Witch,and fills the whole Country… Age