Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Oliver Goldsmith

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.

Oliver Goldsmith

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Oliver Goldsmith

They say women and music should never be dated.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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.

Oliver Goldsmith