Quote

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Joseph Addison

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
Editor
Essayist
Journalist
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Milston
Wiltshire
Joseph Addisson
Right Hon. Joseph Addison
Reluctance
Receive
Advice
Literature
Nothing
Much

More quotes by Joseph Addison

Image
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.
Joseph Addison
Image
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
Image
Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.
Joseph Addison
Image
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
Joseph Addison
Image
A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.
Joseph Addison
Image
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.
Joseph Addison
Image
Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
Joseph Addison
Image
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Joseph Addison
Image
The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
Joseph Addison
Image
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Joseph Addison
Image
How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
Joseph Addison
Image
The time never lies heavy upon him it is impossible for him to be alone.
Joseph Addison
Image
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.
Joseph Addison
Image
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph Addison
Image
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
Image
The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye.
Joseph Addison
Image
Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.
Joseph Addison
Image
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.
Joseph Addison
Image
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.
Joseph Addison
Image
Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
Joseph Addison