Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith

"I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."
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"I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."
Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield
"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well."
Oliver Goldsmith
"A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."
Oliver Goldsmith
"The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy."
Oliver Goldsmith
"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."
Oliver Goldsmith
"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."
Oliver Goldsmith
"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."
Oliver Goldsmith
"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."
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
"A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond."
Oliver Goldsmith
"Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"
Oliver Goldsmith
"The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself."
Oliver Goldsmith
"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."
Oliver Goldsmith
"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."
Oliver Goldsmith
"If you were to make little fishes talk they would talk like whales."
Oliver Goldsmith
"A modest woman dressed out in all her finery is the most tremendous object of the whole creation."
Oliver Goldsmith
"I'll fares the land to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay."
Oliver Goldsmith
"I'll fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade - A breath can make them as a breath has made - But a bold peasantry their country's pride When once destroy'd can never be supplied."
Oliver Goldsmith
"He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all."
Oliver Goldsmith
"He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping."
Oliver Goldsmith
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