Top 100 Quotes About Addison
#1. 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
#3. Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.
Joseph Addison
#4. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Joseph Addison
#5. Conspiracies no sooner should be formed Than executed.
Joseph Addison
#6. Doctors say there's no such thing as chemo brain, but ask any chemo patient.
Sarah Addison Allen
#7. Kelly may be physical perfection on the outside, but I'm not blind. I can see right through that flawless countenance. The empress not only has no clothes - she also has no heart.
Addison Moore
#8. Things happened the way they were supposed to, and it was no use trying to predict what was going to come next. People liked to think otherwise, but what you thought had no practical influence on what eventually happened. You can't think yourself well. You can't make yourself fall out of love.
Sarah Addison Allen
#10. Yellow joy was radiating from her. When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright to watch.
Sarah Addison Allen
#11. We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them.
Joseph Addison
#12. The words were strung in the air like garland. She could almost see them.
Sarah Addison Allen
#13. As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.
Joseph Addison
#17. Was it really that simple? Choosing a life? ...
Maybe you don't fall in love. Maybe you jump.
Maybe, just maybe, it's all a choice.
(Josh Matteson)
Sarah Addison Allen
#18. I'm going to fight for you. I'll bring down the Counts, and Chloe, and every Sector in the universe that gets in my way without think twice. I'm not interested in what the future has planned. I want to share everything with you, Skyla. I'm in love with you.
Addison Moore
#19. Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.
Joseph Addison
#22. Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison
#23. I think about you all the time. I can't stop."
Shaking my head, I ran my palm over my wet face. This couldn't be happening to me. I would not allow it. I knew better.
"Addison, it's natural to form attachments to your teachers."
"Is it natural to picture them fucking you?
Ella Frank
#24. It is majestic, this love affair of ours, so powerful and regal. It is the kind of love that fairtales are born of. The kind that often ends in tragedy.
Addison Moore
#25. People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.
Sarah Addison Allen
#26. There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.
Joseph Addison
#27. Oh, please. Everyone in this town always says that, like you have to be born here to understand things. I understand plenty. You're only as weird as you want to be.
Sarah Addison Allen
#28. A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Joseph Addison
#29. Waning moons their settled periods keep, to swell the billows and ferment the deep.
Joseph Addison
#30. That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.
Sarah Addison Allen
#31. The sky was incredible that night, the moon nearly full and the stars littering the sky like tossed stones.
Sarah Addison Allen
#33. She is INSANE," I scream, standing in the middle of Marshall's living room.
"Of course, she's insane. That would be your genealogy by the way.
Addison Moore
#35. The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
Joseph Addison
#36. There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
Joseph Addison
#37. Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
Joseph Addison
#38. That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.
Joseph Addison
#40. It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
Joseph Addison
#41. She wished she had known back then. Known that happiness isn't a point in time you leave behind. It's what's ahead of you. Every single day.
Sarah Addison Allen
#42. I am a bad boy." He hops on his bike, and I do the same. "That's exactly why you should stay far, far away from me.
Addison Moore
#43. A money-lender
he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.
Joseph Addison
#44. Gage opens the door. I'm not sure whether he gets out or Logan yanks him into the street, but a fight erupts. Full throttle kicks to the balls
Addison Moore
#45. Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
Joseph Addison
#46. Trust is a word humans dangle in front of one another as a threat to get what they want. Trust only your heart.
Addison Moore
#47. A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.
Joseph Addison
#48. The ways of heaven are dark and intricate;
Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.
Joseph Addison
#49. Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
Joseph Addison
#50. True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.
Joseph Addison
#51. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Joseph Addison
#52. This was a woman who had long ago figured out she wasn't getting her own happily-ever-after. But, like all disappointed women, she still believed in it, just that it was meant for someone else.
Sarah Addison Allen
#53. We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.
Joseph Addison
#56. It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of the world, but at a time when arts and sciences were at their height.
Joseph Addison
#58. She'd just walked into heaven. And her grandmother was right there, in every scent.
Sugary and sweet.
Herby and sharp.
Yeasty and fresh.
Sarah Addison Allen
#60. Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison
#61. Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.
Joseph Addison
#62. Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.
Joseph Addison
#63. It had taken her a long time to realize that a prison sometimes isn't a prison at all. Sometimes, it's simply a door you assume is locked because you've never tried to open it.
Sarah Addison Allen
#64. If negativity starts to cloud your thoughts, get on your hands & knees and pull out the weeds.
John Addison
#65. Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.
Joseph Addison
#66. With her dark eyes, elegant nose and olive complexion, Claire looked timeless, old-worldly.
Sarah Addison Allen
#67. Like all fairy tales, the beginning is always beautiful, a ruse to draw you into something you are anticipating.
Sarah Addison Allen
#68. Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
Joseph Addison
#69. I love all Helmut Lang. I love Alexander Wang and Alice+Olivia.
Addison Timlin
#70. Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
Joseph Addison
#71. I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute.
Joseph Addison
#72. The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.
Joseph Addison
#73. Her grandmother used to say something about how the air around you will turn white when things are about to change.
Sarah Addison Allen
#74. We could return from sand if we had to
form into a beautiful mosaic of glass that told our story in colors.
Addison Moore
#75. Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
Joseph Addison
#76. Under her thick pancake makeup, her skin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far-off, happy place.
Sarah Addison Allen
#77. After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.
Sarah Addison Allen
#79. There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.
Joseph Addison
#80. I reminded myself that the heart is deceitful above all things - Addison Goodheart pg. 88
Dean Koontz
#81. Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Joseph Addison
#82. Autumn felt like the whole world was browned and roasted until it was so tender it was about to fall away from the bone.
Sarah Addison Allen
#83. One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
Joseph Addison
#84. We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.
Joseph Addison
#85. There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.
Joseph Addison
#86. Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we can't have.
Sarah Addison Allen
#87. But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.
Joseph Addison
#88. Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.
Joseph Addison
#89. Selma stood. "You can put a tuxedo on a goat, but it's still a goat."
"No, it's not," Bulahdeen said. "It's a completely different goat when you put a tuxedo on it.
Sarah Addison Allen
#90. Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.
Joseph Addison
#91. He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn't looked there in a long, long time.
He'd forgotten how bright it was.
So bright he could hardly stand it.
Sarah Addison Allen
#92. My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
Joseph Addison
#93. Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over ...
Sarah Addison Allen
#94. This is Deirdre," said Addison. "She's an emu-raffe, which is a bit like a donkey and a giraffe put together, only with fewer legs and a peevish temper. She's a terrible sore loser at cards," he added in a whisper. "Never play an emu-raffe at cards. Say hello, Deirdre!
Ransom Riggs
#96. A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts
Joseph Addison
#97. You can like guys in books. How's that? I hear book boyfriends are all the rage.
Addison Moore
#98. Addison:"Well,she's not your type."
Vincent:"Sweetness,if a girl's got tits and a warm pussy,she's my type.
Laura Wright
#99. He claimed the waters must have, indeed, been healing, because look how hard his journey was on him to get there, and how easy it was on him to get home.
Sarah Addison Allen
#100. There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,
that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
Joseph Addison
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