The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHPeople seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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As 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.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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