Goldsmith Quotes

James Goldsmith - “If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.”

Oliver Goldsmith - “Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.”

Oliver Goldsmith - “There is no arguing with Johnson, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.”

Oliver Goldsmith - “Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.”

Oliver Goldsmith - “How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.”

Oliver Goldsmith - “Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.”

Oliver Goldsmith - “I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.”

Oliver Goldsmith - “The hours we pass with happy prospects in view Are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.”

Oliver Goldsmith - “The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.”

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Oliver Goldsmith - “There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knockes you down with the butt end of it.”

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Oliver Goldsmith - “His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.”

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Oliver Goldsmith - “Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”

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Oliver Goldsmith - “Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.”

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Oliver Goldsmith - “You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”

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Oliver Goldsmith - “Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

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Oliver Goldsmith - “He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.”

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Oliver Goldsmith - “Handsome is that handsome does.”

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Oliver Goldsmith - “To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.”

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Oliver Goldsmith - “Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.”

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Oliver Goldsmith - “Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.”

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Oliver Goldsmith - “Little things are great to little men.”

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Oliver Goldsmith - “I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”

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Oliver Goldsmith - “The dog, to gain his private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.”

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Oliver Goldsmith - “And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.”

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Oliver Goldsmith - “Ask me no questions, and I 'll tell you no fibs.”