Gold Quotes
An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.Romanian Prove
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
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
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.Author Unknown
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.Euripides
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
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
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
I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.Albert Einstein
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
Everything has its limit - - Iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906.Mark Twain
The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Spare minutes are the Gold - Dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.Author Unknown
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.Malayan Prove
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.Seneca
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.Leo Tolstoy
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
He fishes well who uses a golden hook.Latin Prove
All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost.J. R. R. Tolkien
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 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
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.John Updike
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.Og Mandino
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.Claiborne Pell
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.Elinor Glyn
Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.Henry Drummond
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
We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.Orison Swett Marden
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.J. R. R. Tolkien
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
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
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
Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.Alain de Lille
