Oliver Goldsmith

“I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant.”

“Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.”

“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”

“law grinds the poor, rich men rule the law”

“Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Oliver Goldsmith paraphrased”

“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.”

“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.”

“He who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day...”

“People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after.”

“…The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader.”

“The nakedness of the indignant world may be cloathed from the trimmings of the vain.”

“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”

“Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.”

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

“He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is battle slain Can never rise to fight again.”

“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”

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

“The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.”

“Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.”

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

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