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!
OLIVER GOLDSMITHRomance 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!
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThey say women and music should never be dated.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHIf you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHI 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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThere are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHA 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 GOLDSMITHThe jests of the rich are ever successful.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHI chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHSurely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHGirls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHTenderness is a virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHPity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHHope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHPeople seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH