100 Quotations by Oliver Goldsmith
- 41. Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are us ...

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

- 43. Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

- 44. Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

- 45. No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

- 46. No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

- 47. Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but ...

- 48. Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greate ...

- 49. People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

- 50. People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.

- 51. Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for pre-eminence.

- 52. Philosophy should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are p ...

- 53. Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

- 54. Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is succes ...

- 55. Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that hu ...

- 56. She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the ...

- 57. Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without era ...

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

- 59. Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our ver ...

- 60. Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

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