KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Joseph Addison Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Joseph Addison

Showing 11-20 of 85 Quotes by Joseph Addison

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

~Joseph Addison

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

~Joseph Addison

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

~Joseph Addison

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

~Joseph Addison

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

~Joseph Addison

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

~Joseph Addison

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

~Joseph Addison

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

~Joseph Addison

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 1st, 1672

Died: June 17th, 1719

Links

Find Joseph Addison on Amazon

Related Authors

Julian Barnes
John Foxe
Kate Greenaway
John Harington
Rudyard Kipling
Nigel Kneale
Arthur Quiller-Couch
Thomas Sprat
Bernie Taupin
John Wilmot

Popular Authors

Jimmy Buffett Julius Caesar Eartha Kitt Bruce Lee Audre Lorde Marilyn Manson George S. Patton Sofia Vergara

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1875 - Rainer Maria Rilke

1969 - Jay-Z

1795 - Thomas Carlyle

1835 - Samuel Butler

1860 - Lillian Russell

1865 - Edith Cavell

1866 - Wassily Kandinsky

1892 - Francisco Franco

1908 - Alfred Day Hershey

1908 - Alfred Hershey

Birthdays on December 4th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Best Business Fitness Happiness Independence Morning Patriotism Trust