Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Oliver Goldsmith quotes, Oliver Goldsmith sayings, and Oliver Goldsmith proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. Oliver Goldsmith
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.Oliver Goldsmith
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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
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.Oliver Goldsmith
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown…not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.Oliver Goldsmith
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Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, his first, best country ever is, at home.Oliver Goldsmith
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I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.Oliver Goldsmith
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.Oliver Goldsmith
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.Oliver Goldsmith
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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.Oliver Goldsmith
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.Oliver Goldsmith
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.Oliver Goldsmith
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Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.Oliver Goldsmith
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.Oliver Goldsmith
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To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.Oliver Goldsmith
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.Oliver Goldsmith
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.Oliver Goldsmith
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Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.Oliver Goldsmith
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.Oliver Goldsmith
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Premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow.Oliver Goldsmith
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.Oliver Goldsmith
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Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.Oliver Goldsmith
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Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.Oliver Goldsmith
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The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.Oliver Goldsmith
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.Oliver Goldsmith
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.Oliver Goldsmith
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.Oliver Goldsmith
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.Oliver Goldsmith
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If frugality were established in the state, if our expenses were laid out rather in the necessaries than the superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.Oliver Goldsmith
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Friendships that are disproportioned ever terminate in disgust. He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack; For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle them back.Oliver Goldsmith