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

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness...

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness...

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.

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.

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 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...

Silence is become his mother tongue.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if...

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if...

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

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

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

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...

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...

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant...

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant...