Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish writer and physician, 1728-1774
14 quotes.
Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
- All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
- Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
- He who seeks only for applause from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
- Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
- People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
- Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
- The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
- The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own producing.
- The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.
- To aim at excellence, our reputation, our friends, and our all, must be ventured; by aiming only at mediocrity, we run no risk, and we do little service.
- Wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.
- You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.