Today, ten quotations from Oliver Goldsmith, Irish writer whose works include She Stoops to Conquer and The Vicar of Wakefield. He was born this date in 1728.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Life is a journey that must be travelled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day.
If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?
In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humour, and humour with serious pleading.
Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
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