I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. – Oliver Goldsmith
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. – Oliver Goldsmith
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. – Oliver Goldsmith
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. – Oliver Goldsmith
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyers office above the coffee shop where wed been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, By the time you get this, Daddy, Ill already be Mrs. Blaise! – Bharati Mukherjee