Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bad #how #journey #life #life is a

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

#always #company #end #feel #first

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#honour #long #prevails #sinks #where

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#law #men #poor #rich #rich men

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#attaining #become #desire #ease #greatest

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#away #betray #charm #finds #folly

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#friendship #incompatible #other #passions #pity

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#art #harm #joke #raw #receive

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#employment #live #man #poet #unpleasant

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#brain #discerning #genius #gives #good