Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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The man recovered of the bite,The dog it was that died.
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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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Tenderness is a virtue.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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And learn the luxury of doing good.
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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack,For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.
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Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!With baskets.
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I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
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We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.
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It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.
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His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Good people all, with one acord,Lament for Madame Blaize,Who never wanted a good word —From those who spoke her praise.
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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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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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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.
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.