Joseph Addison Quotes

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

A great man’s actions are determined, if not foreordained, by his character.

Mine's the fun amount of OCD. The party amount! Just enough to give you a little teeny bit of character, but you can still leave the house.

I just have always felt that people don't change, circumstances change.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Often your face is your autobiography

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence, To break the endless song If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.

Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

Great souls are harmonious.