Joseph Addison Quotes

Don't try to chase something that you want to be there but isn't actually there.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man.

I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would be absurd for me to have that ambition.

If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.

'Friends' started because Rachel left her husband at the altar. This likability factor is just so stupid to me. It's the same thing as 'wish-fulfillment,' which is a big word you hear in a lot of Hollywood rooms. It basically means that people want to see other people living a life they can't lead, and I don't buy that. I think that's not true.

I never promised you a rose garden.

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

My dreams are all follies.

There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'

I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.