Logo
Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselve

People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after. – Oliver Goldsmith

Other quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. – Oliver Goldsmith

Category:
smile
Author
Oliver Goldsmith
Read Quote

I love everything thats old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. – Oliver Goldsmith

Category:
Love
Author
Oliver Goldsmith
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Example
category

Nothing preaches better than the act. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Example

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Example

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples. – Juvenal

Category:
Example

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. – Eric Hoffer

Category:
Example

Random Quotes

God, that dumping ground of our dreams. – Jean Rostand

Category:
Dreams

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. – J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com

Category:
Poetry

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. – Albert Camus

Category:
Freedom

To be great is to be misunderstood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
great