Quotes from Joseph Addison
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
- Joseph Addison
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
- Joseph Addison
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
- Joseph Addison
I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.
- Joseph Addison
Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.
- Joseph Addison
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
- Joseph Addison
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
- Joseph Addison
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
- Joseph Addison
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
- 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
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.
- Joseph Addison
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.
- Joseph Addison