Joseph Addison Quotes

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

Joseph Addison

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• You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Person
  • Needs

• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Law

• Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Careless

• I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • History
  • Progress

• I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Good
  • Work
  • Decision

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Choices

• Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House
  • Leadership
  • Values

• I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Life
  • Comfortable
  • Skin

• Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

  

  Pancho Gonzales
  • Great
  • Important
  • Game

• He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Life
  • Never
  • Intellectual

• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Death

• A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century past, amused the people with the imagination that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto existed in imagination only.

  

  Adam Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Past

• I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists to interpret those data and present the policy alternatives, has a substantially beneficial effect on policymaking in the United States.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Good
  • Present
  • United States

• 'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Goal

• I want to keep going as I have, to travel, read, perform, write, and enjoy my family. I've promised myself only this: no more Laundromats, no more two-shows-a-night, and no more deadlines. I'll work at my own pace.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Family

• The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Love
  • Learn
  • Greatest

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

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great