Gold Quotes

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Judy Garland

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

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

Kahlil Gibran

Dig where the gold is? Unless you just need some exercise.

John M. Capozzi, Why Climb the Corporate Ladder When You Can Take the Elevator?

RICHER THAN GOLDYou may have tangible wealth untoldCaskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be - - I had a mother who read to me.

Strickland Gillilan

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

Og Mandino

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beauty holds more worth than gold.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.

Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean

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

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

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

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

Henry Drummond

Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.

Euripides

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

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

Jonathan Swift

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, Sonnet de Regrets

Gold for friends, Lead for foes.

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

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

Chinese Prove

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

Joey Adams

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

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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 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

Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.

Latin Prove

All is not gold that glitters.

Miguel de Cervantes

Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Thomas Dekke

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

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

Seneca