Oliver Goldsmith

Puzzles

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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Oliver Goldsmith?

  • → By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
  • → Procrastination is the thief of time.
  • → I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
  • → Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no lies.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Oliver Goldsmith.

  • → ‘Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
  • → People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
  • → You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
  • → Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Oliver Goldsmith.

  • → When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
  • → Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
  • → If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
  • → Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Oliver Goldsmith. Which one?

  • → Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
  • → Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
  • → Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
  • → Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Oliver Goldsmith?

  • → Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
  • → Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
  • → A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
  • → When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Oliver Goldsmith?

  • → When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
  • → ‘Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
  • → People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
  • → The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Oliver Goldsmith.

  • → As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition’s hands.
  • → People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
  • → Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
  • → Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
  
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• One of the following quotations belongs to Oliver Goldsmith. Which one?

  • → Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
  • → You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
  • → Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
  • → Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
  
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• Can you guess which one of these belongs to Oliver Goldsmith?

  • → Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.
  • → What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
  • → Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
  • → The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
  
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