--- title: "25 May Quotes By Oliver Goldsmith" description: "25 May quotes by Oliver Goldsmith. Plus more from Oliver Goldsmith and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c14/oliver-goldsmith-772_cannons_a-volcano-may-be-considered-as-a-cannon_3111505.png" --- > [A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/a-volcano-may-be-considered-as-a-cannon-of-immense-size/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c14/oliver-goldsmith-772_cannons_a-volcano-may-be-considered-as-a-cannon_3111505.png) > [He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/he-who-fights-and-runs-away-may-live-to-fight-another-day/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a4/oliver-goldsmith-772_another-day_he-who-fights-and-runs-away-may-live-to_571177.png) > [But winter lingering chills the lap of May.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/but-winter-lingering-chills-the-lap-of-may/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a8/oliver-goldsmith-772_chill_but-winter-lingering-chills-the-lap-of-m_1755969.png) > [Though very poor, may still be very blest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/though-very-poor-may-still-be-very-blest/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f9/oliver-goldsmith-772_inspirational_though-very-poor-may-still-be-very-blest_1967676.png) > [The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/the-nakedness-of-the-indigent-world-may-be-clothed-from-the-trimmings/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc9/oliver-goldsmith-772_may_the-nakedness-of-the-indigent-world-may_1553493.png) > [Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/absence-like-death-sets-a-seal-on-the-image-of-those-we-love-we/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a9/oliver-goldsmith-772_absence_absence-like-death-sets-a-seal-on-the-im_933818.png) > [Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/whatever-the-skill-of-any-country-may-be-in-the-sciences-it-is-from/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdd/oliver-goldsmith-772_character_whatever-the-skill-of-any-country-may-be_283209.png) > [Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/fancy-restrained-may-be-compared-to-a-fountain-which-plays-highest-by/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e3/oliver-goldsmith-772_aperture_fancy-restrained-may-be-compared-to-a-fo_1167288.png) > [The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/the-company-of-fools-may-first-make-us-smile-but-in-the-end-we-always/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6f/oliver-goldsmith-772_business_the-company-of-fools-may-first-make-us-s_2837628.png) > [Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/pity-though-it-may-often-relieve-is-but-at-best-a-short-lived-passion/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4eb/oliver-goldsmith-772_assistance_pity-though-it-may-often-relieve-is-but_2591148.png) > [O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/o-friendship-thou-fond-soother-of-the-human-breast-to-thee-we-fly-in/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b6/oliver-goldsmith-772_assistance_o-friendship-thou-fond-soother-of-the-hu_2123873.png) > [No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/no-vernal-blooms-their-torpid-rocks-array-but-winter-lingering-chills/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8e/oliver-goldsmith-772_breasts_no-vernal-blooms-their-torpid-rocks-arra_1278826.jpg) > [For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/for-the-first-time-the-best-may-err-art-may-persuade-and-novelty/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e3/oliver-goldsmith-772_art_for-the-first-time-the-best-may-err-art_3045555.png) > [The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/the-premises-being-thus-settled-i-proceed-to-observe-that-the/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/153/oliver-goldsmith-772_duplicate_the-premises-being-thus-settled-i-procee_50924.png) > [Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/friendship-is-made-up-of-esteem-and-pleasure-pity-is-composed-of/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2b/oliver-goldsmith-772_contempt_friendship-is-made-up-of-esteem-and-plea_2367607.png) > [The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/the-volumes-of-antiquity-like-medals-may-very-well-serve-to-amuse-the/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9b/oliver-goldsmith-772_antiquity_the-volumes-of-antiquity-like-medals-may_1896901.png) > [The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/the-soul-may-be-compared-to-a-field-of-battle-where-the-armies-are/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20f/oliver-goldsmith-772_army_the-soul-may-be-compared-to-a-field-of-b_1975982.png) > [Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/man-little-knows-what-calamities-are-beyond-his-patience-to-bear-till/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/790/oliver-goldsmith-772_adapted_man-little-knows-what-calamities-are-bey_2379832.png) > [Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/men-may-be-very-learned-and-yet-very-miserable-it-is-easy-to-be-a/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f8/oliver-goldsmith-772_astronomers_men-may-be-very-learned-and-yet-very-mis_372989.png) > [There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/there-is-one-way-by-which-a-strolling-player-may-be-ever-secure-of/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18a/oliver-goldsmith-772_acting_there-is-one-way-by-which-a-strolling-pl_1564370.jpg) > [There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/there-is-yet-a-silent-agony-in-which-the-mind-appears-to-disdain-all/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f7/oliver-goldsmith-772_accidents_there-is-yet-a-silent-agony-in-which-the_2499374.png) > [We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/we-may-affirm-of-mr-buffon-that-which-has-been-said-of-the-chemists/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1f/oliver-goldsmith-772_aim_we-may-affirm-of-mr-buffon-that-which-ha_578721.jpg) > [Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/filial-obedience-is-the-first-and-greatest-requisite-of-a-state-by/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34f/oliver-goldsmith-772_capable_filial-obedience-is-the-first-and-greate_1463968.png) > [Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/ill-fares-the-land-to-hastening-ills-a-prey-where-wealth-accumulates-2/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e5/oliver-goldsmith-772_breaths_ill-fares-the-land-to-hastening-ills-a-p_2972533.png) > [Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/wit-generally-succeeds-more-from-being-happily-addressed-than-from/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c2/oliver-goldsmith-772_boat_wit-generally-succeeds-more-from-being-h_632004.jpg) ## Other authors on May ## More by Oliver Goldsmith > [The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/the-fortunate-circumstances-of-our-lives-are-generally-found-at-last/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) > [How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/how-happy-he-who-crowns-in-shades-like-these-a-youth-of-labour-with/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) > [One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/one-man-is-born-with-a-silver-spoon-in-his-mouth-and-the-other-with-a/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) > [He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/he-cast-off-his-friends-as-a-huntsman-his-pack-for-he-knew-when-he/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) > [Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/even-children-follow-d-with-endearing-wile-and-pluck-d-his-gown-to/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/the-premises-being-thus-settled-i-proceed-to-observe-that-the/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) > [Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/truth-from-his-lips-prevailed-with-double-sway-and-fools-who-came-to/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) > [Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/politics-resemble-religion-attempting-to-divest-either-of-ceremony-is/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) > [To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/to-what-fortuitous-occurrence-do-we-not-owe-every-pleasure-and/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) > [Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/every-acknowledgment-of-gratitude-is-a-circumstance-of-humiliation/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) > [ \[T\]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/t-here-are-depths-of-thousands-of-miles-which-are-hidden-from-our/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) > [Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/like-the-bee-we-should-make-our-industry-our-amusement/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) > [Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/age-that-lessens-the-enjoyment-of-life-increases-our-desire-of-living/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) > [Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life-my all that's mine!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/thus-let-me-hold-thee-to-my-heart-and-every-care-resign-and-we-shall/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) > [Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/here-lies-david-garrick-describe-me-who-can-an-abridgment-of-all-that/) [Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/may/oliver-goldsmith/#itemlist", "name": "25 May Quotes By Oliver Goldsmith", "numberOfItems": 25, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Oliver Goldsmith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/a-volcano-may-be-considered-as-a-cannon-of-immense-size/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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