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13535 quotesThe malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.
Laughter
Oliver Goldsmith
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
Psychology
Oliver Goldsmith
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
Business
Oliver Goldsmith
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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
Mind
Oliver Goldsmith
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Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
Teachers and Teaching
Oliver Goldsmith
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When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
Borrowing
Oliver Goldsmith
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
Wisdom
Oliver Goldsmith
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Oliver Goldsmith
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
Critics and Criticism
Oliver Goldsmith
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Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
Tolerance
Sir James Goldsmith
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Agreement
Samuel Goldwyn
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God makes stars. I just produce them.
Stardom
Samuel Goldwyn
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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.
Truth
Samuel Goldwyn
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I read part of it all the way through.
Books - Reading
Samuel Goldwyn
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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
Truth
Samuel Goldwyn
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That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.
Advertising
Samuel Goldwyn
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That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
Ingratitude
Samuel Goldwyn
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The harder I work the luckier I get.
Luck
Samuel Goldwyn
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
Pessimism
Samuel Goldwyn
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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Bosses and Employees
Alison Gomme
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Liberty
Samuel Gompers
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Books - Classics
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
Arts and Artists
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
Museums and Galleries
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
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Look to the past for guidance into the future.
Past
Robert Jacob Goodkin
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun