Goldsmith Composed

Famous quotes containing the words goldsmith and/or composed:

    “Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
    Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
    Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
    And desolation saddens all thy green;
    One only master grasps the whole domain,
    And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
    —Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)

    “Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.”
    —Katharine Whitehorn (b. 1926)