Oliver Goldsmith quotes

" You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. " # Character # Preachers and Preaching # Example

" People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after. " # Example # Imitation # Models and Modeling

" The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation. " # Life and Living # Travel and Tourism # Change

" Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. " # Morality # Evil # Friends and Friendship

" Silence gives consent. " # Silence

" Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. " # Questions # Love # Friends and Friendship

" 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. " # Ability # Moderation # Life and Living

" Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. " # Travel and Tourism # Success # Life and Living

" I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. " # Zeal

" For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again. " # Discretion # Life and Living # Battles