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Oliver Goldsmith
Irish
Poet
About the author
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Love
#Friendship
#Commerce
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,
Irish
Poet
#Past
#Present
#Future
#Regret
#Lies
#Calamity
#Anticipation
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Strength
#Justice
#Conscience
#Faults
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Country
#Politeness
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Art
#Harm
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,
Irish
Poet
#Home
#Country
#Man
#Blind
#Curiosity
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Wife
#Husband
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Writers
#Knowledge
#Desire
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Talk
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,
Irish
Poet
#Nature
#Beauty
#Happiness
#Taste
#Colors
#Romance
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Pity
#Friendship
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#People
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Time
#Glory
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Acting
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Modesty
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Man
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Life
#Journey
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Man
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Law
#Poor
#Men
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Family
#Man
#Population
#Opinion
#Service
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Time
#Success
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Liquor
#Learning
#Genius
#Nonsense
#Grammar
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Enemy
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Love
#Friends
#Old
#Books
#Manners
#Wine
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Absurdity
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Girls
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Commerce
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Hope
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Wife
#Wedding
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#End
#Smile
#May
#First
#Fools
#Company
#Melancholy
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Successful
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Virtue
#Vice
#Excellence
#Faults
They say women and music should never be dated.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Music
#Women
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Art
#Men
#Woman
#Guilt
#Charm
#Folly
#Melancholy
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Men
#Wealth
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Humility
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Want
#World
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Life
Tenderness is a virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith,
Irish
Poet
#Virtue
#Tenderness