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Oliver Goldsmith - From the Aging category:
I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Audience category:
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Books category:
A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Books category:
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Commerce category:
Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, / And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Drunkenness category:
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, / Gives genius a better discerning. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Excellence category:
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence, that we can scarce weed out the fault without eradicating the virtue. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Failure category:
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Gender category:
They say women and music should never be dated. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Genius category:
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)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Happiness category:
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Hope category:
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Hope category:
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)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Indolence category:
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Integrity category:
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Life category:
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Mistakes category:
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Models category:
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Philosophy category:
To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Silence category:
Silence has become his mother tongue. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Suffering category:
Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Wisdom category:
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)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Words category:
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Oliver Goldsmith - From the Writing category:
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. (Oliver Goldsmith)
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