John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
4343 Oliver Goldsmith 1730?-1774 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 4343 |
| AUTHOR: | Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774) |
| QUOTATION: | This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Good-Natured Man. Act i. |
| Note 1. Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.—Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld: Maxim 22. [back] |