15 Quotes by James Goldsmith

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.

None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.

When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.