Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmithwas an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur'd Manand She Stoops to Conquer. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 November 1730
CountryIreland
thinking fool world
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
modesty virtue breasts
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
hope cheer night
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
strength justice coward
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
husband wife wedding-toast
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
horse philosophy journey
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
science psychology mind
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
humanity world conscious
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.
creation modest whole
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
wise regret lying
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
men decay wealth
Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
pride charity faults
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
life children fall
Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
wise home taste
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.