Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth:If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
Quotes to Explore
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
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I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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Ignorance and confidence are constant companions.
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The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
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He just bullied his way through and got to the right people.
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It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.
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Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth:If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
