joseph addison Quotes 1
| Name | Birthday | Death Date | Nationality | father | Mother | Profession | Famous For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Addison | 1 May 1672 | 17 June 1719 | English | Lancelot Addison | Jane Gulston | Writer, Politician | Joseph Addison name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine. |
A list of popular joseph addison quotes are given below.
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." - Joseph Addison
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." - Joseph Addison
"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
"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius." - Joseph Addison
"Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." - Joseph Addison
"If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius." - Joseph Addison
"We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would no end of them."- On the Right Use of Time" - Joseph Addison
"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
"To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny." - Joseph Addison
"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
"Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship." - Joseph Addison
"The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding." - Joseph Addison
"One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter." - Joseph Addison
"The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount." - 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
"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