You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHI chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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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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