Books Quote by Joseph Addison Download Open image “I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.” — Joseph Addison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Immense Noble Ocean Time
“Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Time has a different meaning for me, and these events that seem so monumental in the moment will one day be nothing more than… — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.... — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“Time is the element in which we exist... We are either borne along by it or drowned in it.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Time is what has stunted the vision of mankind and bound it to mortality. The past and the future have enslaved man in its… — Priya Kumar Copy Share Image
“Time has a savage way of gnawing away at life, leaving it transitory and incomplete, so that life in its fullness can never be… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“My people understood that time is an ocean, not a river,” she said to them all. “It doesn’t flow away and pour itself out,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity. — Ravi Zacharias 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image