Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,A cap by night — a stocking all the day!
Quotes to Explore
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
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On religion I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, benzedrine or a bottle of Jack Daniel's.
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An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.
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Boys like it when you're mean. That's what I'm best at. I make them feel so bad about themselves, all out of fun.
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When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
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A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,A cap by night — a stocking all the day!
