Quotes by Addison, Joseph

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency. >>

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought. >>

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest >>

Quotations about Family

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his fa >>

Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates >>

My family begins with me, your family ends with you. >>

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Addison, Joseph