I chose my wife as she did her wedding gown for qualities that would wear well.
I chose my wife as she did her wedding gown for qualities that would wear well.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
The company of fools may first make us smile but in the end we always feel melancholy.
The company of fools may first make us smile but in the end we always feel melancholy.
I love everything that's old – old friends old times old manners old books old wine.
I love everything that's old – old friends old times old manners old books old wine.
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain With grammar and nonsense and learning Good liquor I stoutly maintain Gives genius a better discerning.
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain With grammar and nonsense and learning Good liquor I stoutly maintain Gives genius a better discerning.
As writers become more numerous it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
As writers become more numerous it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Hope is such a bait it covers any hook.
Hope is such a bait it covers any hook.
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.
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.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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!
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!