Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.
He who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day;
But he who is battle slain
Can never rise to fight again
May live to fight another day;
But he who is battle slain
Can never rise to fight again
True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
Alas! the joys that fortune brings
Are trifling, and decay,
And those who prize the trifling things,
More trifling still than they.
Are trifling, and decay,
And those who prize the trifling things,
More trifling still than they.
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.
As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.
Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.
Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.
Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.
And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.
Thus let me hold thee to my heart,
And every care resign:
And we shall never, never part,
My life-my all that's mine!
And every care resign:
And we shall never, never part,
My life-my all that's mine!
One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.