Oliver Goldsmith famous quotes

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Inspirational #Life #Change

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Love #Friendship #Birthday

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

#Motivational #Success #Perseverance

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Real #Evil #Encounters

Little things are great to little men.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Men #Littles #Little Things

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Enemy #Opponents #Enthusiasm

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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Country #Different #Ceremony

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Lasts #Found #Circumstances

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

#Life #Travel #Journey

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

#Country #Travel #Home

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Science #Psychology #Mind

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Hope #Bait #Hook

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Men #Decay #Wealth

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Humanity #World #Conscious

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

#People #Desire #Thousand

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Wise #Home #Taste

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Want #Use #Speech

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Hope #Cheer #Night

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Individuality #Woe #Goodness

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Men #Law #Justice

Tenderness is a virtue.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Virtue #Tenderness

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.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Marriage #Thinking #Done

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Long #Commerce #Honour

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Champion #Absurdity

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

#Modesty #Virtue #Breasts

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Results #Politeness #Good Nature

Silence gives consent.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Giving #Silence #Consent

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is genius or courage without a heart?
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Integrity #Heart #Understanding

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

#Laughing #Way #Audience

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

#Thinking #Fool #World

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

#Wise #Regret #Lying