Quotes by Joseph Addison
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Addison, Joseph
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.
Addison, Joseph
I recommend to every one of my readers, the keeping a journal of their lives for one week, and setting down punctually their whole series of employments during that space of time. This kind of self-examination would give them a true state of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One day would rectify the omissions of another, and make a man weigh all those indifferent actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.
Addison, Joseph
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
Addison, Joseph
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Addison, Joseph
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Addison, Joseph
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
Addison, Joseph
There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.
Addison, Joseph
Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise or temperance.
Addison, Joseph
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
Addison, Joseph
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Addison, Joseph
When a woman comes to her glass, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavors to be as much another creature as she possibly can. 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.
Addison, Joseph