#be

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

#life #lips #preach #sermon #than

Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers? ↗

— Martin Goldsmith

#be nice #expect #give #her #kind

Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it's the ninth inning. ↗

— Martin Goldsmith

#ball #ball game #before #comes #find

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! ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bliss #charming #colors #consummate #deceptive

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#away #betray #charm #finds #folly

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#brain #discerning #genius #gives #good

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#between #commerce #disinterested #equals #friendship

Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#here #little #long #man #nor

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#best way #enemy #field #head #homes

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#best #best way #laugh #laughing #make