Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Oliver Goldsmith
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
Oliver Goldsmith
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Oliver Goldsmith
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.
Oliver Goldsmith
It's a damned long, boggy, dirty, dangerous way.
Oliver Goldsmith
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
Oliver Goldsmith
The very pink of perfection.
Oliver Goldsmith
There is no arguing with Johnson; for when his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
Oliver Goldsmith
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Type:
Poet
Date of Birth:
1730-11-10
Year of Death:
1774
Nationality:
Irish |
