Famous quotes containing the words peter and/or goldsmith:
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper;
A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
Where’s the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers (l. 1–4)
“Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)