Quote: Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: 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]
Quote: A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, that found me poor at first, and keep me so. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: In all the silent manliness of grief. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Quote: Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. [Oliver Goldsmith]