Frases de Oliver Goldsmith

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“Es cierto que los momentos que pasamos esperando la felicidad son mucho más agradables y felices que los que son coronados por el goce.”

“Aprende el placer de hacer el bien.”

“La amistad es un tráfico desinteresado entre iguales."

Variante: "La verdadera amistad es un desinteresado intercambio de atenciones entre iguales.”

“Las leyes muelen al pobre, y los ricos controlan la ley.”

“No me hagas preguntas para que no te diga mentiras.”

“Nada puede superar la vanidad de nuestra existencia si no es la locura de nuestros esfuerzos.”

“Los hombres pueden ser muy sabios y, sin embargo, muy miserables. Es fácil ser un gran matemático o astrónomo sublime, pero muy difícil ser un buen hombre.”

“La amistad es un comercio desinteresado entre semejantes.”

“En tu relación con cualquier persona, pierdes mucho si no te tomas el tiempo necesario para comprenderla.”

“La amistad es un tráfico desinteresado entre iguales.”

“Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale,
And guide my lonely way
To where yon taper cheers the vale
With hospitable ray.”

“As aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow;
But crush'd or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around.”

“For just experience tells; in every soil,
That those that think must govern those that toil.”

“The first blow is half the battle.”

“When he talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff,
He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.”

“Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days
Have led their children through the mirthful maze,
And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore,
Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.”

“The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor,
The varnished clock that clicked behind the door;
The chest contrived a double debt to pay,
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.”

“Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved.”

“Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.”

“All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.”

“Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centers in the mind.”

“The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.”

“You may all go to pot.”