Irish - Poet | November 10, 1730 - April 4, 1774
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Oliver Goldsmith
LifeJourneyRoadsLife Is ABad
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
LoveOld FriendsWineFriendsOld
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
SuccessTimeYouFallMoreUp
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
LifeBetterLipsYouPreachYour
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
HumorBestYourselfStartLaughWay
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!
NatureBeautyHappinessColorsNever
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.
FutureAloneGreatPastWiseRegret
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
ChampionDefendAbsurdityEvery
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
MenWealthWhereDecay
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
ArtMenWomanGuiltLateLovely
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
HopeHookBaitCoversAny
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
LongWhereCommerceHonourPrevails
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