Best Quotes by James Goldsmith (Top 6)

  1. If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.
  2. Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
  3. When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.
  4. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
  5. Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.
  6. None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.