Oliver Goldsmith Quotes about Life

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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Oliver Goldsmith

Life, Travel, Journey

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Oliver Goldsmith

Inspirational, Life, Change

Oliver Goldsmith (1835). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes”, p.86

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Oliver Goldsmith

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Oliver Goldsmith

Inspirational, Life, People

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Oliver Goldsmith

Life, Children, Fall

Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior (1851). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected”, p.197

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Oliver Goldsmith

Life, Happiness, Inner Peace

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

Oliver Goldsmith

Life, Race, Ability

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

Oliver Goldsmith

Life, Men, Long

"Edwin and Angelina, or the Hermit" l. 31 (1766).

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

Oliver Goldsmith

Love, Life, Looks

Oliver Goldsmith (1794). “The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author, embellished with vignettes by T. Bewick”, p.42

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

Oliver Goldsmith

Life, Form, Quarry

Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield”, p.10

All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

Oliver Goldsmith

Life, Life Is

Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.47

Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life-my all that's mine!

Oliver Goldsmith

Life, Heart, Care

Oliver Goldsmith (1849). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume”, p.147