Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

I think if you were to ask me when I was much younger what my definition of the good life was, I think it would have sounded a lot like what most people would say - a life with all the things you want and everything you think you need to make you happy, and these sorts of things.

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.

Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

I don't want to ever, ever do something in life that isn't fun. Ever.

I think that success is having fun.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

You really want to make sure that you have fun, at the end of the day. If it's not fun, what's the point.

I couldn't think of anything else I'd rather be doing.

As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.