Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Irish - Poet November 10, 1730 - April 4, 1774
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Oliver Goldsmith
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Oliver Goldsmith
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Oliver Goldsmith
Tenderness is a virtue.
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
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith
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!
Oliver Goldsmith
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Oliver Goldsmith
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
Oliver Goldsmith
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Oliver Goldsmith
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
Oliver Goldsmith
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Oliver Goldsmith
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver Goldsmith
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Oliver Goldsmith
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
Oliver Goldsmith
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
Oliver Goldsmith
They say women and music should never be dated.
Oliver Goldsmith
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
Oliver Goldsmith
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.
Oliver Goldsmith
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith
Friedrich Schiller Quotes
German - Dramatist November 10, 1759 - May 9, 1805
Art is the daughter of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller
The strong man is strongest when alone.
Friedrich Schiller
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
Friedrich Schiller
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
Friedrich Schiller
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
Friedrich Schiller
Great souls suffer in silence.
Friedrich Schiller
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Friedrich Schiller
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
Friedrich Schiller
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich Schiller
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich Schiller
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
Friedrich Schiller
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Friedrich Schiller
Appearance rules the world.
Friedrich Schiller
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
Friedrich Schiller
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
Friedrich Schiller
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Friedrich Schiller
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
Friedrich Schiller
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
Friedrich Schiller
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Friedrich Schiller
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
Friedrich Schiller
Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
Friedrich Schiller
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Friedrich Schiller
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
Friedrich Schiller
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Friedrich Schiller
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Friedrich Schiller
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Friedrich Schiller
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller
It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
Friedrich Schiller
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
Friedrich Schiller
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Friedrich Schiller
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
Friedrich Schiller
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
Friedrich Schiller
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Friedrich Schiller
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
Friedrich Schiller
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
Friedrich Schiller
Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
Friedrich Schiller
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Friedrich Schiller
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
Friedrich Schiller
It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
Friedrich Schiller
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
Friedrich Schiller
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
Friedrich Schiller
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
Friedrich Schiller
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
Friedrich Schiller
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Friedrich Schiller
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
Friedrich Schiller
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
Friedrich Schiller
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
Friedrich Schiller
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
Friedrich Schiller
All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
Friedrich Schiller
The will of man is his happiness.
Friedrich Schiller
Freedom can occur only through education.
Friedrich Schiller
In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
Friedrich Schiller
Votes should be weighed not counted.
Friedrich Schiller
To save all we must risk all.
Friedrich Schiller
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Friedrich Schiller
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Friedrich Schiller
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Friedrich Schiller
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Friedrich Schiller
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
Friedrich Schiller
The universe is one of God's thoughts.
Friedrich Schiller
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
Friedrich Schiller
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
Friedrich Schiller
Will it, and set to work briskly.
Friedrich Schiller
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
Friedrich Schiller
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
Friedrich Schiller
He who considers too much will perform little.
Friedrich Schiller
I am better than my reputation.
Friedrich Schiller
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