Gold Quotes

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

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

Bible

He fishes well who uses a golden hook.

Latin Prove

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

Author Unknown

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

A book holds a house of gold.

Chinese Prove

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Elinor Glyn

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

Johann von Goethe

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

Seneca, Epistles

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

Ludwig van Beethoven

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.

John Evelyn

As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.

Samuel Johnson

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Horace, Odes

Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

Thomas Dekke

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

Judy Garland

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

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

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

Jonathan Swift

All is not gold that glitters.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Mille

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

Kahlil Gibran

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

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

Early morning hath gold in its mouth.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Chinese Prove

I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.

Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth

I look at my myself and see a stone, I look at my friends and see gold, But I look at you, and see a gem.

Unknown

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

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

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

Everything has its limit - - Iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906.

Mark Twain

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Malayan Prove