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)
“The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly—because if they don’t speak fast nobody will listen to them.”
—Michael Caine [Maurice Joseph Micklewhite] (b. 1933)
“Thus I live in the World, rather as a Spectator of Mankind, than as one of the Species.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)