Oliver Goldsmith

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always…

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise…

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he…

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness…

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear…

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other…

I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine…

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it…

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall…

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook…

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence…

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves…

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly…