black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.

Oliver Goldsmith

Related Topics

Man Patience Wait

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Company End Fools Melancholy Smile
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Better Life Lips Preach Yourself
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Deep Hope Perspective
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Discrimination Grind Law Money Politics Poor Rich
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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Country Curiosity Himself Home Leaving Man Philosophy
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Art Harm Joke Yourself
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Conscience Coward Justice Mistake Seldom Strength
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Rich Successful
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Criticism World Writing Yourself
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Champion Defend Weird
They say women and music should never be dated.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Date Music Woman
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Character Chest Modesty Noble Reside Virtue
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Choice Marriage Quality Wife
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Appreciation Feeling Husband Marriage Praise
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
Tenderness is a virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

One Liner Tender Virtue

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes