Quotes by Addison, Joseph

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. >>

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

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is >>

Quotations about Amusement

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself >>

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. >>

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. >>

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

Addison, Joseph