Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addisonwas an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was the eldest son of The Reverend Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 May 1672
age age-and-aging forget people slow soon
Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
humble humility people
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
people months england
The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.
inspirational people prudent
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
stupid people natural
Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
stupid stupid-people people
Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
stupid people growing
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.
fathers-day men mean-people
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
death people dying
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
writing people excellence
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.
giving people flying
Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.
writing people world
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.
art race people
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.
money people primitive
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.