Quotes by Addison, Joseph

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

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of d >>

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys >>

Quotations about Giving

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving pr >>

While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give i >>

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. >>

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

Addison, Joseph