Oliver $ Quotes

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.

Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.

Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.

A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.

What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion And that which we do with the dead, Is the name of the honestest man in the nation: What more of a man can be said?

It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

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!

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.

The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.

To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.

Though very poor, may still be very blest.

In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.

Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.

I always get the better when I argue alone.

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

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one.

I like to focus on the varieties of paper, the different sizes and watermarks, evidence perhaps of what was typed when and sometimes where and by whom.

It started out as a typically insane idea to map every part of the published text in terms of its manuscript provenance and history, and to establish the cultural meaning of the book, part and whole.

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others conducted themselves as became American officers and seamen.

Part of the value of TASK is not to invest into anything permanent; to really celebrate the moment-the fluidity of creative action.

Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.

Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.

I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible.

You need to feel as good as you can before you start a workout. So what you wear to the gym is important.

Everyone wants to see someone shoot someone in the head.

It was just hilarious how my first reaction was, "Oh, no, it's another vampire show. I'm not interested." And then, I read the script and thought it was brilliant.

There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.