If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it? — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
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