Oliver Goldsmith
50 quotations
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
Tenderness is a virtue.
Those that think must govern those that toil.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
Crime generally punishes itself.
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.