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 Future
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
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
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
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 Beauty
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