Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Oliver Goldsmith (1835). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes”, p.86

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Travel, Journey

• You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Life, People

• Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Race, Ability

• If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Happiness, Inner Peace

• Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Men, Long

  "Edwin and Angelina, or the Hermit" l. 31 (1766).

• All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Life Is

  Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.47

• The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Form, Quarry

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield”, p.10

• The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Life, Looks

  Oliver Goldsmith (1794). “The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author, embellished with vignettes by T. Bewick”, p.42

• Thus let me hold thee to my heart,
  And every care resign:
  And we shall never, never part,
  My life-my all that's mine!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Heart, Care

  Oliver Goldsmith (1849). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume”, p.147

• As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Mother, Lost Love

  Oliver Goldsmith (2012). “She Stoops to Conquer”, p.43, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Children, Fall

  Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior (1851). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected”, p.197

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