Oliver Goldsmith

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

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

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

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

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate

Those that think must govern those that toil.

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.