goldsmith Quotes

“Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.”

“The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”

“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.”

“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!”