Famous quotes containing the words joseph addison, joseph and/or addison:
“Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways find their Account in the Speculation of the Day.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)