Joseph Addison Quotes

Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both. - Joseph Addison

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. - Joseph Addison

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

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. - Joseph Addison

Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity. - Joseph Addison

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

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. - Joseph Addison

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. - Joseph Addison

Page 1 of 16

Next -> Last ->>