Joseph Addison quotes Born: 05/01/1672 Died: 06/17/1719 Country: united_kingdom

• 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)
• Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. (Joseph Addison)
• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. (Joseph Addison) [books/genius/mankind/generation]
• With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. (Joseph Addison) [prudent/people]
• 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) [animals/generation/men/wisdom]
• A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants... (Joseph Addison) [more]
• He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. (Joseph Addison) [comfort/day/remember]
• Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. (Joseph Addison) [nature/more/agreeable/conversation]
• 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) [pleasure]
• There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. (Joseph Addison) [more/beauty]
• A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. (Joseph Addison) [virtue/truth]
• To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. (Joseph Addison) [pleasure/moment]
• Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. (Joseph Addison)
• A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. (Joseph Addison) [day/influence]

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