Irish - Poet | November 10, 1730 - April 4, 1774
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith
LearningGoodBrainPuzzleBetter
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
BestWaitEnemyMeetWayHead
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
ModestyVirtuesSeldomEnriched
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
FriendshipLoveTyrantsSlaves
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
ManLongLittleHereWantsNor
They say women and music should never be dated.
WomenMusicSayNeverThey Say
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
FriendshipTwoPityPassionsOther
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
WorldBetterYouWantWriteCritic
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
SimpleActingStageNaturalOffHe
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
HumilityEnoughAliveHimBring
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
MarriageWifeHusbandAppreciated
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
StrengthJusticeEnoughCowardThose
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