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Quotes of Oliver Goldsmith

1728-1774 Anglo-Irish Author Poet Playwright
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  • No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it. (fools and foolishnes)
  • To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service. (excellence)
  • The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. (law and lawyers)
  • Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. (law and lawyers)
  • Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes. (girls)
  • And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew. (intelligence and int)
  • The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success. (hope)
  • The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter. (laughter)
  • Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. (travel and tourism)
  • The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. (laughter)
  • A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. (travel and tourism)
  • Who can direct when all pretend to know? (management)
  • It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. (passion)
  • Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same. (manners)
  • The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation. (life and living)
  • Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over. (life and living)
  • Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. (modesty)
  • Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. (materialism)
  • The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself. (laughter)
  • A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home. (manners)
  • You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam. (marriage)
  • There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side. (philosophers and phi)
  • Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. (pity)
  • With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive. (nationalities and na)
  • Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure. (pleasure)
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