Absurdity Quote by Joseph Addison

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

— Horace

When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander…

— Saadi

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so…

— Plato

“The difference between a civilized man and a barbarous fiend—a madman, say - Lies, perhaps, Merely in a thin veneer of willed self-restraint.”

— Margaret Atwood

He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

— Josh Billings

“It takes a man of unusual character to openly confront his own shortcomings. It’s so much more convenient to blame others.”

— Raymond E. Feist

That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their…

— Sir Fulke Greville

“The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he…

— Adam Smith

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his…

— Owen Feltham