You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHYou can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWhere wealth accumulates, men decay.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHCould a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThey say women and music should never be dated.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHOn the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHLife is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHHope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHPity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHModesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHFriendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWhen lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
OLIVER GOLDSMITHAll that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHCeremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHConscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe jests of the rich are ever successful.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH