They've been such a treasure. I have to thank God every day. We have a fabulous family. We're in a p...
MARGURITE ADDISON Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by t...
JOSEPH ADDISON I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dyin...
JOSEPH ADDISON The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But th...
JOSEPH ADDISON Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISON A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good na...
JOSEPH ADDISON 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISON It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.
ADDISON WALKER Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
JOSEPH ADDISON Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
JOSEPH ADDISON Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
JOSEPH ADDISON If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he ...
JOSEPH ADDISON My voice is still for war.
JOSEPH ADDISON Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright...
JOSEPH ADDISON Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.
JOSEPH ADDISON The plan is when I go to college I plan on taking four years off. School is definitely my priority n...
ADDISON PHILLIPS I definitely want to do this for the rest of my life, whether I do it professionally or just for fun...
ADDISON PHILLIPS It's definitely been a great learning experience. This is about as hard as some of the courses are g...
ADDISON PHILLIPS It's been fun. When I do well it's so rewarding because I'm in here with all the professionals and I...
ADDISON PHILLIPS Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.
ADDISON MIZNER Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
ADDISON MIZNER Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it
ADDISON MIZNER Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit
ADDISON MIZNER Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate
ADDISON MIZNER The market is reacting to worries over supplies during the coming driving season.
ADDISON ARMSTRONG We've built crude supplies far in excess of what the market is expecting and that should weigh on pr...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG That was a shocking gasoline build...the crude build was bigger than expected and that should put do...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG That was a shocking gasoline build.
ADDISON ARMSTRONG Although it is unlikely that the Iranian nuclear dispute will lead to a curtailment of oil shipments...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG I think we're still in a very headline-driven market and the geopolitical concerns are going to cont...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath...
JOSEPH ADDISON Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above anothe...
JOSEPH ADDISON There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISON Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.
JOSEPH ADDISON The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somethi...
JOSEPH ADDISON Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somet...
JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; Ours has s...
JOSEPH ADDISON Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
JOSEPH ADDISON If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON She gives me the finger and turns back around. "Did you see that?" I flinch at the gesture. "That is...
ADDISON MOORE Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISON Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
ADDISON MIZNER The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
ADDISON MIZNER Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
JOSEPH ADDISON Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily diss...
JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISON The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment,...
JOSEPH ADDISON Poets are born, not paid.
ADDISON MIZNER A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and sereni...
JOSEPH ADDISON Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment...
JOSEPH ADDISON A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants...
JOSEPH ADDISON To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
JOSEPH ADDISON Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath...
JOSEPH ADDISON Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most se...
JOSEPH ADDISON Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of...
JOSEPH ADDISON Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of ma...
JOSEPH ADDISON A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own s...
JOSEPH ADDISON To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusemen...
JOSEPH ADDISON The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will rende...
JOSEPH ADDISON Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
JOSEPH ADDISON What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
JOSEPH ADDISON Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are oft...
JOSEPH ADDISON Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
JOSEPH ADDISON 'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISON Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more livel...
JOSEPH ADDISON A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recen...
JOSEPH ADDISON As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
JOSEPH ADDISON The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
JOSEPH ADDISON Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienat...
JOSEPH ADDISON What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.
JOSEPH ADDISON Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
JOSEPH ADDISON Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blacke...
JOSEPH ADDISON There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which...
JOSEPH ADDISON We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
JOSEPH ADDISON Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
JOSEPH ADDISON An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
JOSEPH ADDISON Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot...
JOSEPH ADDISON Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
JOSEPH ADDISON Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
JOSEPH ADDISON Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
JOSEPH ADDISON Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
JOSEPH ADDISON The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infalli...
JOSEPH ADDISON See in what peace a Christian can die.
JOSEPH ADDISON If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss...
JOSEPH ADDISON Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
JOSEPH ADDISON The post of honor is a private station.
JOSEPH ADDISON We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us...
JOSEPH ADDISON Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the applica...
JOSEPH ADDISON One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
JOSEPH ADDISON If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of lau...
JOSEPH ADDISON Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
JOSEPH ADDISON I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in...
JOSEPH ADDISON There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as Justice. Most of the other virtues are the virtues ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In ...
JOSEPH ADDISON That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a f...
JOSEPH ADDISON There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
JOSEPH ADDISON There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
JOSEPH ADDISON I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot r...
JOSEPH ADDISON With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
JOSEPH ADDISON It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...
JOSEPH ADDISON A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the ce...
JOSEPH ADDISON It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalr...
JOSEPH ADDISON There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
JOSEPH ADDISON Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which...
JOSEPH ADDISON Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an ...
JOSEPH ADDISON He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he m...
JOSEPH ADDISON Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-g...
JOSEPH ADDISON Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somethi...
JOSEPH ADDISON Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISON What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scatter...
JOSEPH ADDISON True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place...
JOSEPH ADDISON We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as thoug...
JOSEPH ADDISON Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generati...
JOSEPH ADDISON There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
JOSEPH ADDISON The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance wh...
JOSEPH ADDISON If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far les...
JOSEPH ADDISON Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
JOSEPH ADDISON Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few ...
JOSEPH ADDISON There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
JOSEPH ADDISON Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its obje...
JOSEPH ADDISON Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
JOSEPH ADDISON No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of...
JOSEPH ADDISON A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
JOSEPH ADDISON There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a...
JOSEPH ADDISON Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
JOSEPH ADDISON An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarre...
JOSEPH ADDISON Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to...
JOSEPH ADDISON It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with i...
JOSEPH ADDISON It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addis...
ADDISON WALKER The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they...
JOSEPH ADDISON Much might be said on both sides.
JOSEPH ADDISON Should the whole frame of nature round him break In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned...
JOSEPH ADDISON Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.
JOSEPH ADDISON The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds wh...
JOSEPH ADDISON Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!
JOSEPH ADDISON O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate; How can I see th...
JOSEPH ADDISON Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure! . . . . Endless...
JOSEPH ADDISON Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.
JOSEPH ADDISON Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everythin...
JOSEPH ADDISON It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentl...
JOSEPH ADDISON When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the li...
JOSEPH ADDISON Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain,...
JOSEPH ADDISON But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny an...
JOSEPH ADDISON Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it
JOSEPH ADDISON Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what...
JOSEPH ADDISON A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit g...
JOSEPH ADDISON Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenit...
JOSEPH ADDISON Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISON There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhab...
JOSEPH ADDISON My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
JOSEPH ADDISON I will indulge my sorrows, and give way To all the pangs and fury of despair.
JOSEPH ADDISON When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has wri...
JOSEPH ADDISON Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its obj...
JOSEPH ADDISON Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its obje...
JOSEPH ADDISON I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.
JOSEPH ADDISON Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!
JOSEPH ADDISON There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabi...
JOSEPH ADDISON If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less ...
JOSEPH ADDISON And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.
JOSEPH ADDISON Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strength...
JOSEPH ADDISON In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
JOSEPH ADDISON Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.
JOSEPH ADDISON The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast), The ...
JOSEPH ADDISON On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate.
JOSEPH ADDISON They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and...
JOSEPH ADDISON The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's ey...
JOSEPH ADDISON I would . . . earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the ...
JOSEPH ADDISON It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censu...
JOSEPH ADDISON The love of a family is life's greatest blessing
JOSEPH ADDISON When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
JOSEPH ADDISON Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
JOSEPH ADDISON Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing ...
JOSEPH ADDISON The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
JOSEPH ADDISON Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
JOSEPH ADDISON Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and he...
JOSEPH ADDISON Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
JOSEPH ADDISON A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
JOSEPH ADDISON If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, ca...
JOSEPH ADDISON How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it JOSEPH ADDISON Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul w...
JOSEPH ADDISON The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures a...
JOSEPH ADDISON The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou sha...
JOSEPH ADDISON A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
JOSEPH ADDISON I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
JOSEPH ADDISON Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
JOSEPH ADDISON Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
JOSEPH ADDISON God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
ADDISON MIZNER Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
JOSEPH ADDISON