If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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!
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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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.
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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!
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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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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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