What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
JOSEPH ADDISONTo this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
-
-
Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
JOSEPH ADDISON -
There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
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 narrow compass.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
JOSEPH ADDISON -
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
JOSEPH ADDISON






