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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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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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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Somewhere in me was a rod of steel to which I clung. I’d had a vision, as good as any vision given to any poet, sage, or prophet in the past. I wasn’t elated, I wasn’t confident even, but somehow, I knew, and with the end of doubt had come the death of despair.
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Freud … showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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For all children, mothers are their first love, their first acquaintance with intimacy, touch, warmth, tenderness, sustenance. Infancy is a conspiracy between mothers and their babies, a bond that fathers can only helplessly witness, denied the profound pleasure and pain of giving birth.
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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.
