Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."

"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."

"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."

"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."

"The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself."

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."

"All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little."

"Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law."

"The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy."

"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well."

"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."

"Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw."