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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
— Oliver Goldsmith
To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
— Oliver Goldsmith
All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
— Oliver Goldsmith
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I want to know where my food comes from and the conditions in which it's grown. I also want to embrace traditional British produce, and seasonality.
— Sheherazade Goldsmith
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
— Oliver Goldsmith
An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.
— Kenneth Goldsmith
Hope, like the gleaming taper
— Oliver Goldsmith
What is genius or courage without a heart?
— Oliver Goldsmith
Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.
— Martin Goldsmith
We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.
— Joan Oliver Goldsmith
The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
— Oliver Goldsmith
But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
— Oliver Goldsmith
as humans we have become separated with our source~Joel S. Goldsmith ~Rising in consciousness~ — Joel S. Goldsmith
It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.
— Idries Shah
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
He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Prudery is ignorance.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The beast retires to it's shelter, and the bird flies to it's nest; but the helpless man can only find refuge in his fellow creature.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.
— Barbara Goldsmith
Life can be like a poem that way, with the unexpected appearing in the room, not just on the page.
— Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first blow is half the battle.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Error is ever talkative.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Mojo" is, "That positive spirit toward what we are doing now, that starts from the inside and radiates to the outside
— Marshall Goldsmith
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
— Oliver Goldsmith
They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.
— Oliver Goldsmith
With problems and issues groups face- there is an enormous disconnect between understanding and doing.
— Marshall Goldsmith
If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.
— Jerry Goldsmith
As long as you believe in yourself and your own vision, you have something. When you give up that, you are personally bankrupt.
— Olivia Goldsmith
I'm a mother, and my life is very full.
— Sheherazade Goldsmith
It is possible to do many household cleaning tasks by simply using ingredients from the store cupboard, which are also safer for the environment.
— Sheherazade Goldsmith
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.
— Oliver Goldsmith
How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
— Oliver Goldsmith
When I'm in London, I get a veggie-box sent up every week, with the latest pickings.
— Sheherazade Goldsmith
To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
— Oliver Goldsmith
All is not gold that glitters,Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters — Oliver Goldsmith
There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Sounds mean nothing without music.
— Jerry Goldsmith
People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after
— Oliver Goldsmith
It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.
— Marshall Goldsmith
Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, Thank you.
— Marshall Goldsmith
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.
— Marshall Goldsmith
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
— Oliver Goldsmith
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
— Oliver Goldsmith
If you aren't opening doors for people, you are closing them!
— Marshall Goldsmith
I suppose I was what you would call a charming rogue.
— Annabel Goldsmith
A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
— Oliver Goldsmith
When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.
— Oliver Goldsmith
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
— Oliver Goldsmith
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
— Oliver Goldsmith
That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
— Martin Goldsmith
The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
— Ramana Maharshi
I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.
— Kenneth Goldsmith
My vegetable patch is my pride and joy.
— Sheherazade Goldsmith
Premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Pets inspire many different types of behaviour in their owners, mostly ranging from adoration to ridiculous obsessiveness, in my experience.
— Sheherazade Goldsmith
All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are.
— Kenneth Goldsmith
Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
— Oliver Goldsmith
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
— Oliver Goldsmith
You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.
— Joel S. Goldsmith
Curiosity is the seedling for innovation, and if you can recognize it and react positively to it among your people, you can multiply innovative ideas
— David Goldsmith
They say women and music should never be dated.
— Oliver Goldsmith
You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on ...
— Oliver Goldsmith
Elegy of the Death of a Mad Dog The dog, to gain some praivate ends, Went mad and bit the man.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
— Oliver Goldsmith
If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The rare female scientist was depicted as masculine, coarse, ugly, careworn and industrious but making no significant contribution.
— Barbara Goldsmith
Change is not a one-way street- it involves two parties: the person who is changing and the people who notice it.
— Marshall Goldsmith
You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.
— Kenneth Goldsmith
All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
— Oliver Goldsmith
To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
— Oliver Goldsmith
For many of us, Christmas lunch is the most special meal of the year - and I certainly want nothing but the very best for this celebration.
— Sheherazade Goldsmith
The very pink of perfection.
— Oliver Goldsmith
