Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form,Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,-Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
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Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,His first, best country ever is, at home.
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They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.
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By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.
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Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
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Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
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Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!With baskets.
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The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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The best-humour'd man, with the worst-humour'd Muse.
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So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roarBut bind him to his native mountains more.
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A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,A cap by night — a stocking all the day!
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt;It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.