Joseph Addison Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.”

“Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.”

“Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.”

“That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?”

“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.”

“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.”

“To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.”

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

“One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.”

“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.”