Gold Quotes

Unknown - remember, people will judge you by your actions,...
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.
Marcius Porcius Cato
Romanian prove - an ass is but an ass, though laden with gold....
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Author Unknown
They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.
Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.
John Evelyn
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
Latin Prove
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
Sir Thomas More, Utopia
All is not gold that glitters.
Miguel de Cervantes
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
Mark twain - everything has its limit - - iron ore cannot be...
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.
Seneca
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
Anon.
The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back.
David Fisher, Conversations with My Cat
We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.
Tao Te Ching
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Everyone realized that Computervision stock was the golden goose. But one grabbed the leg, another grabbed a wing, another got the neck, all pulling hard, and they realize now they could kill the goose if they keep this up.
Charles Foundyller of Daratech, from 8/14/92 Wall St Journal
An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
Chinese Prove
Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.
Euripides
Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.
Henry Drummond
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Malayan Prove
Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.
Albert Einstein
Early morning hath gold in its mouth.
Benjamin Franklin
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot
All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
John Donne
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link, into the great chain of order.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Seneca, Epistles
Where as gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, it comes an evil guest unto those that receive it in their hand.
Simondes of Ceos
Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Kahlil Gibran
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw
The source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme.
Bible
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Thomas Dekke
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.
Kahlil Gibran
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
Og Mandino