523 Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

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

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

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

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.