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Polygraph Inspirational Quotes (206)

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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
Oliver Goldsmith
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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 ones.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Crimes generally punish themselves.
Oliver Goldsmith
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No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
Oliver Goldsmith
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There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life-my all that's mine!
Oliver Goldsmith
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Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Oliver Goldsmith
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As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Hope, like the gleaming taper
Oliver Goldsmith
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The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
Oliver Goldsmith
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And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
Oliver Goldsmith
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living
Oliver Goldsmith
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Oliver Goldsmith
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Error is always talkative.
Oliver Goldsmith
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