Oliver Goldsmith quotes

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

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.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

They say women and music should never be dated.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

They say women and music should never be dated.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

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.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

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.