Quotes
Quotes - Goldsmith
One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title-page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting 'Twas only that when he was off, he was acting.
The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before.
Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before.
Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
Tenderness is a virtue.
They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,--a stocking all the day.
It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
Handsome is that handsome does.
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still.
His conduct still right with his argument wrong.
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.
In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
