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

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Topics: Age Quotes

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm...

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm...

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.

They say women and music should never be dated.

They say women and music should never be dated.

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

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...

Silence is become his mother tongue.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

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...

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

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

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling...

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling...

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

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

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

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always...

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always...