Best Oliver Goldsmith Proverbs
- You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. Better
- Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. Ambition
- A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past… Alone
- All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. All
- Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. Accommodations
- Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. Accuse
- Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those… Beauty
- When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt… Art
- Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. Absurdity
- Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. Better
- The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. Always Feel
- People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. Change
- Honour sinks where commerce long prevails. Commerce
- Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. Affronted
- Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. Any
- I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. Anniversary
- On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting. Acting
- They say women and music should never be dated. Dated
- 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… Brought
- The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a… Book
- Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. Encounter
- Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies. Ask
- In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach. Among
- The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. Crowded
- All the bloomy flush of life is fled. All
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