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

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Topics: Wedding Quotes

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...

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.

They say women and music should never be dated.

They say women and music should never be dated.

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.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

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...

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.

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...

Tenderness is a virtue.

Tenderness is a virtue.

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

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...

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and...

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and...

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

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

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.

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.

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

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

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.