Quotes by Goldsmith, Oliver

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates >>

I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy >>

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the >>

Quotations about Materialism

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not >>

Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suc >>

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. >>

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

Goldsmith, Oliver