Best Oliver Goldsmith Quotations
- There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Absurd
- Where wealth accumulates, men decay. Accumulate
- 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… Any
- When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our… Curiosity
- 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 dialogism,… Concatenation
- And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd… Art
- What is genius or courage without a heart? Bravery
- Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. Adorn
- By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child. All
- Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd… Age
- Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. Children
- While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. All
- He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. Cast
- Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po. Laziness
- A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day. All
- 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 At all his… All
- The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed… Bed
- Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt. Dainties
- Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. Any
- Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected. Absence
- Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then… All
- Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. Came
- The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly. Accordingly
- Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land. Broad
- Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. Abridgment
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