Joseph Addison People Quotations

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.

In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.