Joseph Addison Quotes


A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Joseph Addison Liberty 150
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. Joseph Addison Friend 118
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. Joseph Addison Prejudice 105
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 alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. Joseph Addison Admiration 102
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture. Joseph Addison Assiduous 98
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty. Joseph Addison beauty 95
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. Joseph Addison best 95
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. Joseph Addison Weather 92
Is it not wonderful that the love of the animal parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young? Joseph Addison Animals 92
See in what peace a Christian can die. Joseph Addison Death 91
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. Joseph Addison Death 91
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought. Joseph Addison Time 90
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. Joseph Addison Serenity 90
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. Joseph Addison Friends 89
The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. Joseph Addison Envy 89
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves. Joseph Addison Jealousy 89
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. Joseph Addison Solitude 87
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Joseph Addison Nature 87
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. Joseph Addison Able 86
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. Joseph Addison Parenting 86
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. Joseph Addison Advice 85
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. Joseph Addison Argument 84
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. Joseph Addison Faith 84
Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations. Joseph Addison Faith 82
Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other. Joseph Addison Goals 82
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. Joseph Addison Age 82
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. Joseph Addison Honor 82
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. Joseph Addison Pleasure 81
The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. Joseph Addison Fortune 81
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. Joseph Addison Organization 81
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. Joseph Addison Change 81
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. Joseph Addison Nature 81
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. Joseph Addison Age 80
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. Joseph Addison Virtue 79
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. Joseph Addison Gardens 78
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. Joseph Addison Age 78
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. Joseph Addison Words 77
Inconsistency with ourselves is the great weakness of human nature. Joseph Addison Human Nature 77
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. Joseph Addison Beauties 77
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. Joseph Addison Age 77
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Joseph Addison Experience 76
Jesters do often prove prophets. Joseph Addison Prophets 76
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Joseph Addison Peace 76
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. Joseph Addison Wedding 75
A quote is a personal possession and you have no right to change it. Ray CaveIdeas in the mind are the transcript of the world, words are the transcript of ideas; and writing and printing are the transcript of words. Joseph Addison Words 74
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. Joseph Addison Prejudice 74
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. Joseph Addison Business 74
A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes. Joseph Addison Day 74
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. Joseph Addison Laughter 74
I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country Joseph Addison Justice 72

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