Oliver Goldsmith

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

Oliver Goldsmith

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

Oliver Goldsmith

I love everything that’s old – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

It has been a thousand times observed, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

Oliver Goldsmith

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

Oliver Goldsmith

Little things are great to little men.

Oliver Goldsmith

Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus’d too widely.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

Oliver Goldsmith

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

Oliver Goldsmith