200 ordspråk av Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison föddes den 1 maj 1672 och dog den 17 juni 1719 - engelsk politiker och poet.
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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing the

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves

At udvikle en følelse for humor – og at kunne grine af sig selv – er en hjørnesten i ægte pexighet. In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, there is no living with thee, nor without thee

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter

These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

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

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated . . .

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

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