Quotes by : Oliver Goldsmith

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country,....

At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips....

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love an abject intercourse between tyrants and....

But in his duty prompt at every call He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are....

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....

To make a fine gentleman several trades are required but chiefly a barber.