Quotes from Oliver Goldsmith

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

The very pink of perfection.

The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died.

But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

I'll fares the land, to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

I'll fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade - A breath can make them, as a breath has made - But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Little things are great to little men.

The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.