Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith Famous Quotes & Sayings
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![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-445074.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-719905.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-1875068.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is battle slain Can never rise to fight again Oliver Goldsmith quotes: He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is battle slain Can never rise to fight again](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-1307989.jpg)
May live to fight another day;
But he who is battle slain
Can never rise to fight again
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-129772.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-1397179.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Alas! the joys that fortune bringsAre trifling, and decay,And those who prize the trifling things,More trifling still than they. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Alas! the joys that fortune bringsAre trifling, and decay,And those who prize the trifling things,More trifling still than they.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-631710.jpg)
Are trifling, and decay,
And those who prize the trifling things,
More trifling still than they.
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-2131076.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-2103814.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-1394186.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-2034169.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-2011086.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-1501524.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-1998289.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-1569979.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-1572915.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: 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. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-1790137.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-1875864.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-745583.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: 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? Oliver Goldsmith quotes: 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?](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-785703.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-496930.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-157355.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-140995.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: 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! Oliver Goldsmith quotes: 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!](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-1000774.jpg)
And every care resign:
And we shall never, never part,
My life-my all that's mine!
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: 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. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-1225781.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-1185019.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-1005954.jpg)
![Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. Oliver Goldsmith quotes: Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/oliver-goldsmith-quotes-943119.jpg)