Quotes by Joseph Addison

“Jealousy is the injured lovers hell”

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”

“My wish isnt to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.”

“All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter”

“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”

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

“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.”

“When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.”

“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.”

“Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,”

“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”

“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”

“A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.”

“When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know theyre trying. Its terrible! But when you smile, its so much sexier!”

“The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”

“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”

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

“There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.”

“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.”

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.