Joseph Addison Quotes

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Joseph Addison

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• Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Days
  • Breaking

• Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Proud

• It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Happy
  • Equality
  • Be Happy

• And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Space
  • Class
  • Mission

• It's kind of fun to be sexy.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Sexy

• There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Know
  • Find
  • Racism

• I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Way
  • Top
  • Wacky

• The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Player
  • Winning
  • Chance

• I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Money
  • Nice

• I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Live
  • Models
  • Bunch

• We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • World
  • Long
  • Trying

• When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Work
  • Character
  • Fun

• And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • People
  • Writing
  • Clarity

• When you want the belt, you have to work for it.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Work
  • Want
  • Belt

• If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Missing
  • Three
  • Others

• At night I wake up and think, What color will make me feel better when I soak in the bathtub for an hour? I want everyone who's dreaming of a glamorous life to know that I'd trade a good bath any day for the heels, the hair, the makeup, the tight dresses, the photographs, the small talk.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

  

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth
  • Good

• Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Age
  • Food
  • Learning

• I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.

  

  Donna Leon
  • She
  • Stop
  • Justice

• It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  

  James F. Cooper
  • Men
  • Important
  • Fire

• When I think about any of the missteps in my life that I've made, all of which I'm grateful for, it's because I just so wanted to be truly seen and heard for who I am and was afraid I wasn't or wouldn't be.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Life

• I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Up
  • College
  • Environment

• I've always dreamed of being a superhero, and I actually got to play one!

  

  Lucas Till
  • Superhero

• An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

  

  Joseph Addison