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

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Topics: Friendship Quotes

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

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

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

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...

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and...

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and...

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised...

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice,...

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice,...

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the...

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the...

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

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

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.

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...

They say women and music should never be dated.

They say women and music should never be dated.

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...

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...

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

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