Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHLaw grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
-
-
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
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 -
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH