I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. -Oliver Goldsmith Saintpatricksday
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. -Oliver Goldsmith Wedding
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. -Oliver Goldsmith Alone
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. -Oliver Goldsmith Future
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. -Oliver Goldsmith Marriage
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. -Oliver Goldsmith Friendship
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. -Oliver Goldsmith Life
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! -Oliver Goldsmith Happiness
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. -Oliver Goldsmith Smile
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. -Oliver Goldsmith Travel
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! -Oliver Goldsmith Beauty