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

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive...

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive...

How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an...

How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an...

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

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

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of...

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of...

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he...

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he...

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

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

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly...

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly...

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear...

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear...

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it...

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it...

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

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

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up...

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up...

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to...

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to...

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the...

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the...

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

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

Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see, Oil, vinegar, sugar and saltiness agree

Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see, Oil, vinegar, sugar and saltiness agree

Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and...

Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and...

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row...

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row...