The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHAs writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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 pictures of consummate bliss!
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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 single, and only talked of population.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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