Quotes by : Oliver Goldsmith

Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.

I'll fares the land to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a....

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

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

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

…The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with....

And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all it knew.

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans....