Quote #29
I...chose a wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.
More from Oliver Goldsmith
- A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
- We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.
- Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
- Handsome is that handsome does.
- Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
- That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
- For just experience tells; in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.
- I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.