Oliver Goldsmith Famous Quotes
"The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other downThe swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the placeThe bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reproveThese were thy charms, sweet village sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to pleaseThese were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled."
"Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs."
"Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray."
"Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter."
"Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill 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 destroyed can never be supplied."
Oliver Goldsmith Quotations
Better a mouse in the pot than no meat at all.
Romanian Proverb
How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values
Alan Greenspan
"He who must die, must die in the dark, even though he sells candles."
Colombian Proverb
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life."
Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr
Let every man look before he leaps.
Miguel de Cervantes
"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."
Denis Watley
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau