Oliver Goldsmith was a famous Poet from Ireland, who lived between November 10, 1730 and April 4, 1774. He/she became 43 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding.
Our collection contains 36 quotes who is written / told by Oliver, under the main topic Wedding.
36 Famous quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook"
"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well"
"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes"
"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves"
"Every absurdity has a champion to defend it"
"Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet"
"Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse"
"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same"
"Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw"
"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"
"All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little"
"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"
"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"
"Honour sinks where commerce long prevails"
"There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue"
"The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy"
"The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself"
"With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive"
"Where wealth accumulates, men decay"
"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips"
"Tenderness is a virtue"
"Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes"
"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall"
"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!"
"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other"
"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy"
"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall"
"On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting"
"Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues"
"Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long"
"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations"
"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning"
"Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law"
"If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales"
"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"
"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine"
