Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more. Oliver Goldsmith More Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith More Quotes From Oliver Goldsmith Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair. Oliver Goldsmith pain want thank-you Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. Oliver Goldsmith peppers puff flattery The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. Oliver Goldsmith gambling twelve games Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. Oliver Goldsmith pride men country A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. Oliver Goldsmith care made men The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure. Oliver Goldsmith scholar adventure Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. Oliver Goldsmith callous peppers please Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. Oliver Goldsmith intelligence brain giving As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, Oliver Goldsmith pride house thinking Honour sinks where commerce long prevails. Oliver Goldsmith commerce honour long There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came. Oliver Goldsmith country travel thinking Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure. Oliver Goldsmith charm pleasure love Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind. Oliver Goldsmith care add philosophy All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. Oliver Goldsmith wedding-toast wife husband [T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means of volcanoes, those burning mountains that seem to discharge their materials from the lowest abysses of the earth. Oliver Goldsmith volcanoes science mean If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer. Oliver Goldsmith ask-me answers giving I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool. Oliver Goldsmith character men country The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people. Oliver Goldsmith character country people 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 romance color taste Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals. Oliver Goldsmith generosity giving-up understanding
