Gold Quotes

Ludwig van beethoven - recommend to your children virtue; that alone can...
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
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw
Strickland gillilan - richer than goldyou may have tangible wealth...
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift
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
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Author Unknown
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
Og Mandino
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.
John Evelyn
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
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
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
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
Horace, odes - whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both...
Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.
Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean
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
Beauty holds more worth than gold.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
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
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - Great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.
D. March
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.
Kahlil Gibran
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.
Seneca
The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A book holds a house of gold.
Chinese Prove
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann von Goethe
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 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
An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.
Romanian Prove
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
Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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?
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Seneca, Epistles
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
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
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides
Gold for friends, Lead for foes.
Anastasio Somoza Garc? a, Dictator of Nicaragua 1936 - 1956
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
All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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
All is not gold that glitters.
Miguel de Cervantes