Oliver Goldsmith Life Quotations

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

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

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

Life at the greatest and best is but a forward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth

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

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!

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

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.

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.

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.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.