I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

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• Oliver Goldsmith:

  Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

• Oliver Goldsmith:

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

• Oliver Goldsmith:

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

• Oliver Goldsmith:

  I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

• Oliver Goldsmith:

  On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

• Oliver Goldsmith:

  With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

• Oliver Hardy:

  That's another fine mess you've gotten me into.

• Oliver Hardy:

  We never see ourselves as others see us.

• Oliver Herford:

  Only the young die good.

• Oliver Herford:

  Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.