523 Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

Those who think must govern those that toil.