Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely Oliver Goldsmith More Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith More Quotes From Oliver Goldsmith To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber. Oliver Goldsmith barbers fine gentleman Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. Oliver Goldsmith law justice men Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. Oliver Goldsmith industry fortune inspirational I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. Oliver Goldsmith wedding anniversary wife 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 population opinion men We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack. Oliver Goldsmith virtue speak 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 betrayal love art If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness. Oliver Goldsmith inner-peace happiness life The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. Oliver Goldsmith humor law funny Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity? Oliver Goldsmith humanity men children Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. Oliver Goldsmith cheer lonely loneliness Prudery is ignorance. Oliver Goldsmith ignorance Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors. Oliver Goldsmith wise writing country Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side. Oliver Goldsmith faults charity pride Silence gives consent. Oliver Goldsmith inspirational giving war The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose. Oliver Goldsmith clothes bob gold It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves. Oliver Goldsmith taken advice giving Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success. Oliver Goldsmith powerful enthusiasm enemy One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle. Oliver Goldsmith spoons mouths men Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt. Oliver Goldsmith debt gratitude thinking
