Gold Quotes

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

Ecclesiasticus, Aprocrypha (Ec. 41: 12)

Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

Henry Drummond

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Leo Tolstoy

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Elinor Glyn

An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.

Romanian Prove

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

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

Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.

Seneca

I was born at the age of 12 on a Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer lot.

Judy Garland

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.

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.

Unknown

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Kahlil Gibran

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Horace, Odes

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Gold for friends, Lead for foes.

Anastasio Somoza Garc? a, Dictator of Nicaragua 1936 - 1956

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

James Barrie

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

A book holds a house of gold.

Chinese Prove

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

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.

Joachim du Bellay

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Johann von Goethe

Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to - Day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

La Rochefoucauld

Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.

Joey Adams

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig van Beethoven

An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.

Chinese Prove

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

All is not gold that glitters.

Miguel de Cervantes

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

Albert Einstein

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - From Live Without Principle.

Henry David Thoreau

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - Nothing.

Aesop, The Goose with the Golden Eggs

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

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

The source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme.

Bible