A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life

Quote by Joseph Addison

Topics: Happiness Quotes

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills...

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills...

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are...

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are...

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be...

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be...

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down...

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down...

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and...

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and...

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing...

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing...

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as...

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as...

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves...

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already...

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already...