Oliver Goldsmith

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

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

If you were to make little fishes talk they would talk like whales.

A modest woman dressed out in all her finery is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

I'll fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade - A breath can make them as a breath has made - But a bold peasantry their country's pride When once destroy'd can never be supplied.

I'll fares the land to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay.

He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.

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

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

But in his duty prompt at every call He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.

At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

The man recover'd of the bite The dog it was that died.

Philosophy is a good horse in the stable but an errant jade on a journey.

The very pink of perfection.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

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